We're going to get gored to death by a feral fugging hog and your best strategy is to pretend it's a grizzly bear?

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.

When you start thinking, you will lose your contact with the crowds!

You rich people are all the same. You couldn't care less about the other half of the world. They can all starve to death for all you care!

Don't limit investing to the financial world. Invest something of yourself, and you will be richly rewarded.

By our actions we tell Him of our love.

In 1980, I published my first novel, in the usual swirl of unjustified hope and justified anxiety.

Citizenship is what makes a republic - monarchies can get along without it.

I used to dream. I used to glance beyond the stars. Now I don't know where we are Although I know we've drifted far!

The basketball skills I have, I've got because I work hard. When you work hard, I think you don't have to be afraid of anything.

When I was a little girl you used to learn to sew all the holes in things, darning socks, but nobody mends things anymore.

I love metaphor the way some people love junk food.