Great books help you understand, and they help you feel understood.

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.

It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls

A team that has character doesn't need stimulation.

I love you so much when i see you i get butterflies

Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime.

The only work of art which succeeds is that which fails.

The only way I can cope with me and my environment is to have this kind of wall around me. I'm exhausting myself.

The dunes are changed by the wind, but the desert never changes. That's the way it will be with our love for each other

That's what it feels like when I write, like I have this beautiful world in my head, but when I try to remember it in order to write it down, I change it, and I can't ever get it back.

The body is subject to the law of growth and decay, what grows must of necessity decay.

It 's no fish ye 're buying, it 's men's lives.