You are going to live a good and long life filled with great and terrible moments that you cannot even imagine yet.

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.

When a woman is attracted to a man, it doesn't matter if he's rich or not.

I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there. Perhaps it seemed to me that I had several more lives to live, and could not spare any more time for that one.

I am just a common man who is true to his beliefs.

I stay away from the telephone if at all possible.

Anyone that knows me knows what I'm about, and I'm very much a British actor, a European actor.

No one wants a cherry pie that bites back.

Be relentlessly generous, without focusing on when it will come back to you.

If you step back and look at the data, the optimum amount of red meat you eat should be zero.

I've gone fishing thousands of times in my life, and I have never once felt unlucky or poorly paid for those hours on the water.

Vice, like disease, floats in the atmosphere.