But it is the nature of stars to cross, and never was Shakespeare more wrong than when he has Cassius note, ‘The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars / But in ourselves.

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.

Being an example to others is a requirement of following Jesus, even though none of us will ever be a perfect example.

To be almost saved is to be totally lost.

The three great apostles of practical atheism, that make converts without persecuting, and retain them without preaching, are wealth, health and power.

There are as many ways to write songs as there are songs.

I've been criticized for the things I chose and things I've chosen to do.

When I look at myself in the mirror, I don't see the bad guy.

True shamans live in a world that is alive with what is to rationalist sight unseen, a world pulsing with intelligence.

In the presence of death I affirm and reaffirm the truth of all that I have said against the superstitions of the world. I would say that much on the subject with my last breath.

I am not happy that I am sick. I am not happy that I have AIDS. But if that is helping others, I can at least know that my own misfortune has had some positive worth.

I like to live life in an understated way because that's who I am - an ordinary guy who has experienced an extraordinary journey.