We imagine people as animals or gods. -But she was just a person, a girl.

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.

In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.

I personally don't like to go see romantic comedies. But people do want to see them, and they seem to want to see me in them.

Problems are inevitable. Misery is a choice.

If you aren't sure which way to do something, do it both ways and see which works better.

An extraordinary diva would never sit by herself.

Grace is the voice that calls us to change and then gives us the power to pull it off.

I encourage you to accept that you may not be able to see a path right now, but that doesn't mean it's not there.

You know you're old if they have discontinued your blood type.

Good luck is often with the man who doesn't include it in his plans. The harder I work, the luckier I get.

That's the fairy tale. You meet, you fall in love, you kiss, and neither of you is revolted by it. You get married and have kids and live happily ever after.