When people call people nerds, mostly what they're saying is, 'you like stuff.' Which is not a good insult at all, like, 'you are too enthusiastic about the miracle of human conscience.

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.

I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.

A living poem" had always been the words that came to mind when he tried to describe her to others.

It was like being at an Arabian hoedown with a band of psychedelic hillbillies (p. 171).

When words lose the value... nothing is left!

Believing is such a comfort that it's hard to give up a belief just because it isn't true.

In art school we're always taught that art is an end in itself - art for art's sake, expressing yourself, and that that's enough.

Humility is not disgraceful, and carries no loss of true pride.

It was a most rewarding experience! I learned and saw how with a few simple ideas and concepts the same presentation can go from being standard and ordinary to interesting and involving.

ISIS will be wiped out.Just off the face of the earth. This is evil.

Maybe she couldn't know who she was today. Maybe it was enough to know that she was no longer who she was before.