Your responsibility is not to the people you're making the gift for, but the gift itself.

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.

If we do not live and manifest in our lives what we realize in our deepest moments of revelation, then we are living a split life.

It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.

It would be Spiderman. I'd love to be Peter Parker.

If you're not happy, if you're not Emmersonianly happy and think everything's going to get better, then you're just sort of a dark animal.

No one's raising children any more. To love a child, you've got to work for it. You have to change its diapers and feed it at night!

Choose people who lift you up.

The space that every man occupies in the world is measured by the faith he expresses in connection with his aims and purposes.

Today is the most important day of our lives.

Most of our modern portrait painters are doomed to absolute oblivion. They never paint what they see. They paint what the public sees, and the public never sees anything.

As population susceptibilities are better understood, we will be in a better position than we are in today to make informed decisions about risk management.