We were just looking at ideas of each other.

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.

America used to live by the motto "Father Knows Best." Now we're lucky if "Father Knows He Has Children." We've become a nation of sperm donors and baby daddies.

We teach best by how we live life

Do you prefer ‘fashion victim’ or ‘ensembly challenged’?

I think everyone is ticklish. You just gotta find the right spots.

I've actually not read any books on time management.

Really, everything for me comes from "Manifestra." It was an incredible gift of a song; it really describes an important moment in my life.

My life was on the line here and my career and everything I worked for, it was hanging by a thread

Track your small wins to motivate big accomplishments.

Talents of the novelist: ... observation of character, analysis of emotion, people's feelings, personal relations.