He wasn't perfect or anything. He wasn;t your fairytale prince charming or whatever. He tried to be like that sometimes,but i liked him best when that stuff fell away.

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 will learn your anger. I will lick your sadness.I will feast on your hunger.

If you want to live your life to the fullest you must start believing in yourself today.

If time stood still for a moment, what would you be grateful for? And will it be enough to allow time to have meaning when it begins?

Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age.

Some forty years of experience in my field as a scholar and as a teacher have given me great confidence mixed with greater humility.

The game has basically not changed since I ended my career.

I have a really low boredom threshold.

Julia [Roberts]. She's got two kids and animals, and I think she's a night nibbler. There'd be crumbs everywhere.

If you have children you worry about the world you're leaving them.

You still want to be thoughtful about what you do, no doubt, but you have to learn through trial-and-error experimentation as well.