but there was nothing I could do to dim the supernovae exploding inside my brain, an endless chain of intra cranial firecrackers

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.

What is it when your former life becomes your dreams? The things you took for granted are now in that mystical realm where you can only see them with your eyes closed, ephemeral and distant.

The kind of individual that you see on the outside, is never the same person on the inside.

My goal in the classroom was always to make sure they were having so much fun that they didn't realize they were learning.

The extra daily social time of 1.7 hours in weekends raises average happiness by about 2%.

It would be an absurdity for jurors to be required to accept the judge's view of the law, against their own opinion, judgment, and conscience.

How strong is a faith that can't stand up to a few honest questions?

I'm not going to say it's laziness, but I'm not a grand creator of new characters.

The human society is the extension of the individual. Therefore, if we really want a radical change, if we want a better world, we need to change individually.

Women are not a garment you wear and undress however you like. They are honored and have their rights.

There is some CO2-water vapor feedback. But it's not operating on a global scale. The modellers cannot accurately separate water vapour from the effects of clouds and rainfall.