And then I screwed up and the Colonel screwed up and Takumi screwed up and she slipped through our fingers.

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.

Would you destroy Something perfect in order to make it beautiful?

The shell must break before the bird can fly.

Change is one of the scariest things in the world and yet it is also one of those variables of human existence that no one can avoid.

I never, ever, restrict food, and I will never go on a diet ever again.

The balloon seems to stand still in the air while the earth flies past underneath.

The parallel development in American blues to the British movement has resulted in Johnny Winters.

I'm pretty healthy, most of the time.

Obviously it's fun to let yourself go and eat a pint of Haagen Dazs, but being healthy feels the best. Sobriety and health is the greatest thing.

You have to take the basics of feminism and the kind of outline of it and do what you do with it. You have to make things work for your own life.