Writing is something you do alone. Its a profession for introverts who want to tell you a story but don't want to make eye contact while doing it.", Nerdfighteria Wiki, January 17, 2012]

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.

Because even if the lie is beautiful, the truth is what you face in the end.

Instead of trying to be taller than others, stronger than others, more superior to others, try to be gentler than others, more compassionate than others, fairer than others!

It's amazing how much you can learn if your intentions are truly earnest.

There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.

The prophet and the martyr do not see the hooting throng. Their eyes are fixed on the eternities.

It takes fifteen pounds of wild fish to get you one pound of farm tuna. Not very sustainable. It doesn't taste very good either.

That's the kind of visual that you're trying to attract - something that in some way or another, connects you to what's happening there in a realistic way.

Observe a method in the distribution of your time. Every hour will then know its proper employment, and no time will be lost

Crime, like virtue, has its degrees.

I am the result of the good choices I've made and the bad choices.