the existence of broccoli does not in any way affect the taste of chocolate

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.

I was far from being a child prodigy, and yet I learnt relativity at the age of 15!

People are predictable. That's what makes them easy to kill.

My lips and eyes and heart were stinging when you kissed me in the dark. — Jack Garton to Jennifer Hammer, 2008 (age 24)

With both agents and publishers hungry for bestsellers, literature will have to end up as a cottage industry.

Skiers view snowboarders as a menace; snowboarders view skiers as Elmer Fudd.

One thing you cannot control is nature.

The teacher "teaches" and the students "sit and listen" or learn passively.

If a man look upon any other man and estimates that man as less than himself, then he is stealing from the other. He is stealing the other’s birthright – that of equality.

I like taking risks and I decided to put every bit of me into the role.

Kill not the moth nor butterfly, For the Last Judgement draweth nigh.