One of the things I like about making stuff in the age of the Internet, is that people make stuff in response to it. You can see people respond to your work visually or musically or with writing.

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.

In the darkness, don't doubt, blame or cry. Be the light to enlighten the whole sky.

When we come to the light of God, all our sins shall be forgiven by faith in Jesus Christ.

When our sensitivity to feel pain decreases, so does our sensitivity to feel joy with it.

If God gives you responsibility for aging parents, seek what is best for them, not what is most convenient for you. And keep contact with them!

What he would have given to be that plaything in her hands...

God has given us all different abilities and gifts, so that through them we can bring God’s love and His presence into the land where we are called

Can I view thee panting, lying On thy stomach, without sighing; Can I unmoved see thee dying On a log Expiring frog!

The severest test of work today, is not of our strategies, but of our imaginations and identities.

Style is a continuum. Style never changes. It's a straight line. It's a refinement of the same vocabulary. Style takes you from day to evening, season to season.

I shutter to think how many people are underexposed and lacking depth in this field.