We don't suffer from a shortage of metaphors . . . But you have to be careful which metaphor you choose, because it matters.

Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.

Amsterdam is like the rings of a tree: It gets older as you get closer to the center.

I feel like crying, so I must be crying, but it's impossible to tell because I'm underwater.

...And in freedom, most people find sin.

So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.

A taste so profound and complex that it can't even be compared to other tastes, only to emotions. Cheesy waffles, I was thinking, tastes like love without the fear of love's dissolution.

My thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellations.

The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.

All those paper people living in their paper houses, burning the future to stay warm.

I would always love Alaska Young, my crooked neighbor, with all my crooked heart.

Mussolini?” Leo frowned. “Wasn’t he like BFFs with Hitler?

A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it never in the tongue Of him that makes it.

I had very good eyes once. Though it's another thing to say what I saw. In my experience, it is entirely possible to watch something happen and not to see it at all.

I learn about the highs and lows of living with the same mother for your entire life, about how no one can make you angrier, but how you can't really love anyone more.

Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.

The state of minds vary according to the angle under which one examines them.

Toleration ought in reality to be merely a transitory mood. It must lead to recognition. To tolerate is to affront.

My mom died when I was 8.

The British electors will not vote for a man who does not wear a hat.

Asks the Possible of the Impossible, "Where is your dwelling-place?" "In the dreams of the Impotent," comes the answer.