At least for tonight. In sickness and in health. In good times and in bad. For richer, for poorer. 'Till dawn do us part.

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 realized it for the first time in my life: there is nothing but mystery in the world, how it hides behind the fabric of our poor, browbeat days, shining brightly, and we don't even know it.

Only insecure boys will belittle a woman. The greatest way to "man-up" is to empower women.

Rome is not outside me, but inside me.. Her feverish sweetness, her tragic countryside, her own beauty and harmony, all these are mine, for my thought and my work.

Birds sing after a storm why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?

I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats. And if we didn't wear fur coats, those little animals would never have been born!

When science starts to be interpretive it is more unscientific even than mysticism.

The things I'm passionate about are beauty and fashion.

Poetry is when you make new things familiar and familiar things new

I love making music and I'm falling in love with making records, so it's like having two girlfriends. But I can handle it.

You have to experiment and that's gonna help your confidence so much when you step out and try things.