I have guts, just not when it counts.

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.

God has planned the world too perfectly for me to doubt that everyone is where they are supposed to be.

In the winter she curls up around a good book and dreams away the cold.

In political matters feeling often decides more correctly than reason.

A successful school has to engage all the people, all the powers, and all the capacities within it.

Acting is the easiest money you'll ever make in your life, and directing is probably the hardest money.

Oh, Fortuna, you capricious sprite!

When the world is destroyed, it will be destroyed not by its madmen but by the sanity of its experts and the superior ignorance of its bureaucrats.

We still lend our old house out to relatives. They keep a guest book for my fans to sign.

There is so much love in us all, but often we are too shy to express our love, and keep it bottled up inside us. We must learn to love, to love until it hurts, and we will know how to accept love.

We cannot even recollect the actions of our infancy, our childhood is like something written on a slate and rubbed off.