He let his mind wander. It went to a predictable place, and he missed her

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.

Faith is active and action word.

Do short people reach their full potential quicker?

Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats neither fear nor shame can cure them.

Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye, it is in the mind.

Learn to eat problems for breakfast

I wept to think that life went on even when so much had been lost, that rain still fell and myrtle grew between the rocks.

I won't claim the workhouses didn't have their problems, but they were set up by people who cared.

So basically, I graduated high school a semester early.

Little people have changed from the 1970s to now.

There is some soul of goodness in things evil, Would men observingly distill it out.