I think maybe the reason I have spent most of my life being afraid is that I have been trying to prepare myself to train my body for real fear when it comes. But I am not prepared.

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.

But now, here were the British among us, upon our soil where the sun rises over one lake and sets upon another.

The world which worships Mother Mary and goddess Durga also has experienced such heinous crimes against her daughters.

It's hard to watch your life unfold, and sad. Life changes.

I was blinded by being a romantic person.

I definitely think cheerleaders have no fear. When I took the Hellcats job I was like whoa, this is a sport. Cheerleaders deserve a lot of respect for what they do.

was it possible that i was, in the modern term, in denial?

I would like to feel that I have a range and that it's not just a matter of being a comic actor or a serious actor, because those are really artificial classifications, I think.

That is what you have to do before you kill, I thought. You have to create an it, where none was before.

The takings clause of the Fifth Amendment is for conservatives what the equal protection clause of the 14th is for liberals.

A sermon in shoes is often more eloquent than a sermon on paper.