We're not going to break anything. Don't think of it as breaking in to SeaWorld. Think of it as visiting SeaWorld in the middle of the night for free.

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.

Everybody must have a fantasy.

There is a pleasure a bee takes in collecting nectar and piling it into a hive. It knows well that the chores involved in such a task will yield sweet results.

There are no negatives in life, only challenges to overcome that will make you stronger.

Jazz needs the help. It's the more sophisticated music. All the other music is on the TV, but jazz isn't.

Women generally consider consequences in love, seldom in resentment.

In effect I am not a novelist, but rather a failed essayist who started to write novels because he didn't know how to write essays.

No two men are absolutely alike, not even twins, yet there is much that is indispensably common to all mankind.

Economics never was a dismal science. It should be a realistic science.

We must act now to make sure fresh water is available to everyone, no matter where they live. The consequences of doing nothing will be even more catastrophic.

Words signify man's refusal to accept the world as it is.