When you go to a great concert, you feel this arc, almost like the music of a well-chosen set takes you on this trip through emotions and through various forms of intellectual engagement.

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 don’t necessarily sit around inviting life to knock me down, but when it does I don’t wait around for an invitation to stand back up either.

Life is full of unexpected. The grace of God is available to everyone to stand the test of time.

The waves formed in your heart will make you fall in Love.The waves formed in your mind will make you fall from Life.

Traumas produce their disintegrating effects in proportion to their intensity, duration and repetition. (1909)

Don't front, don't put something out there that you feel isn't realistic and doesn't portray who you are. Just be yourself, be you, and don't be afraid to speak your mind.

Kindness is like snow-it beautifies everything it covers.

Sometimes out hearts are broken so new light can get in.

Things are not at all what they seem to be: oh no, not at all.

My heroes are always ready, willing, and able to execute moves necessary to get themselves out of deep trouble.

You need an R rating because without one, you can't advertise and the film won't get shown