weltschmerz: its the depression you feel when the world as it is does not line up with the world as you think it should be.

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.

Making and thinking about somebody is special... you go in the tracks of saying that you are horrible and not anymore special.

It ain't the parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it's the parts that I do understand.

Sharp are the arrows of a broken heart.

Advertising will get more and more targeted until it disappears, because perfectly targeted advertising is just information.

Photographs are believed more than words; thus they can be used persuasively to show people who have never taken the trouble to look what is there.

What's right for most people in most situations isn't right for everyone in every situation. Real morality lies in following one's own heart.

Clergyman: A ticket speculator outside the gates of Heaven.

A vegetarian driving a Hummer emits less carbon than a meat eater on a bicycle.

Remove those 'I want you to like me' stickers from your forehead and, instead, place them where they truly will do the most good -on your mirror!

A failed experiment can be more important than a trivial design