You used," he said, and then took a sharp breath, "to call me Augustus.

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.

Give away everything—even your heart, soul, and mind. Nothing is yours. Keep your experiences and your memories. Those are yours and they make you who you are.

That's the problem getting rich. You use up your whole life doing it. Just to sit up the front of the aeroplane.

No art ever came out of not risking your neck.

Please leave me alone

Once you can accept failure, you can have fun and success.

There’s no doubt that there’s some folks who just really dislike me because they don’t like the idea of a black President.

Getting an audience requires luck as well as talent. Some artists are private and shy. It costs them too much.

His legs have a mind of their own, his foot shoots by itself... Roberto Baggio is a big horsetail that flicks away opponents as he flows forward in an elegant wave.

I did enough algebra when I was at university, so I am sick and tired of that.

Don't be a genius, my son, it isn't good for anybody.