Sunlight feels warm and rough against your skin like a kiss on the cheek from your dad.

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.

Self-knowledge is the beginning of self-improvement.

What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?

Having a baby changes the way you view your in-laws. I love it when they come to visit now. They can hold the baby and I can go out.

I worry about anthropomorphism as a form of self-deception. (The Christian religion is an anthropomorphic account of the universe.)

Old Magic, Old Ways, the Old Ones themselves often seem powerless in a new place.

In Defense of the World Order . . . U.S. soldiers would have to kill and die.

I simply don't become attached to the outer world or to anything. I work for God. I do the very best I can, and then I give the results to Him.

If some nuclear properties of the heavy elements had been a little different from what they turned out to be, it might have been impossible to build a bomb.

Apparently nothing will ever teach these people that the other 99 % of the population exist.

I'm in the woods so much I can tell you which plants are edible.