If by that you mean that I dislike celebrity magazines, prefer food to anorexia, refuse to watch TV shows about models, and hate the color pink, then yes. I am proud to be not really a girl.

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.

The race we are in is a race against the disappearing life.

Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.

The happiness I feel in having a family has brought me a real beauty.

Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle aged person has likely learned how to have a little fun in spite of his troubles.

I know there's nothing that I wouldn't do Go to the ends of the earth for you To make you feel my love

Thoughts are sending out that magnetic signal that is drawing the parallel back to you

My start in politics was watching my parents go to the polls on election day. It reminded me that being an active, engaged citizen and voter is critical to the success of our democracy.

Cesky Krumlov, the little jewel box of a city in southern Bohemia.

What we need to do is really improve energy efficiency standards, develop in full scale renewable and alternative energy and use the one resource we have in abundance, our creativity.

I know [people] think I'm taller because it's so close and I look stretched out, but I'm just 4-8.