But you want to see shapes; you want to see stories, so you pick them out of the sky.

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 want to assure you that working in transition period is an ungrateful job for any honest government.

That's how all theater should be done - you only have one chance to see it and then it's gone. One night only.

As a younger person you can come in through many, many gateways. It's like some huge Mandela. You can enter into this and get refreshed.

The danger sensation is exciting. The challenge is to find new dangers.

I miss Bettie Page. I've been missing her since the last time I photographed her in 1954.

Sometimes when it goes really well, you wonder, "who's that at the piano?"

From what I hear is happening, young Indian boxers have started to do well on the world stage and started to gain the attention of the general audience.

All I can do is just do stuff while I am alive and hopefully that track record will speak for itself.

What gives me strength is thinking about my children.

I didn't think we'd get to this point that we're at now, but I was ready to lead If we got to this point.