It is not my fault that my parents own the world's largest collection of black Santas.

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 think there needs to be a meeting to set an agenda for more meetings about meetings.

I will show her that loving her is my greatest truth, and the most beautiful thing I have ever known. ” — Gem

Every government is run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.

I think intelligence is totally subjective; it's like sexiness.

We have not yet concluded that needle-exchange programs do not encourage drug use.

Much of living is an attempt to preserve oneself by annexing and occupying others.

In dire times you can lose joy, but you can't lose hope. Hope is your guide.

I think it's important to know what you're going to do with the ball before it comes to you. So you're always thinking before hand and when the ball comes to you to can make the pass straight away.

It is giving me a great satisfaction, because I had the notion that we could make great wines equal to the greatest wines in the world, and everybody said it was impossible.

But some people act like they think I live in the jungle someplace.