I tried--I swear I tried. But you didn't want to hear what I was saying, and I used that as an excuse to let it go on.

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 is indeed able to make you what He wants you to be.

Who can understand the profound mystery of God?

I don't know why you call it morning sickness, because I was sick all day and night!

Perhaps no other year before or since 1984 has been awaited with such eager anticipation.

Like all other Black revolutionaries, Amerika is trying to lynch me.

We sue each other too much and care for each other too little.

In any symmetrical war in today's world, it is necessary to have regional support.

The Sacraments are the salvation of those who use them rightly, and the damnation of those who misuse them.

Today more people believe in UFOs than believe that Social Security will take care of their retirement.

I hyperventilate opening a box of chocolates. I'm the most nervous guy in the world.