Thank you for explaining that my eye cancer isn't going to make me deaf. I feel so fortunate that an intellectual giant like yourself would deign to operate on me.

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.

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

My life is spent in perpetual alternation between two rhythms, the rhythm of attracting people for fear I may be lonely and the rhythm of trying to get rid of them because I know that I am bored.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by doing the thing which you think you cannot do.

The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.

The hardest thing to believe when you're young is that people will fight to stay in a rut, but not to get out of one.

The best of all teachers is the one who helps people so that eventually they don't need him.

Climate change is my greatest concern.

True suffering does not know itself and never calculates.

I'm bigger than you! I'm higher on the food chain - get in my belly!

The cure of the part should not be attempted without the cure of the whole.