That's what I realized: if I did get her back somehow, she wouldn't fill the hole that losing her created.

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.

Her eyes were springs from which ecstasy drew water.

Uproot the spirit of reluctancy out of your life and invest the spirit of stickability in this year of 2014.

I think people feel for a long time that they ought to know how to write a novel in two drafts.

The essence of education is that it is a change effected in the organism to satisfy the operator.

But my sadness is comforting Because it’s right and natural And because it’s what the soul should feel When it already thinks it exists And the hand pick flowers And the soul takes no notice.

It is not sufficient that what one paints should be made visible. It must be made tangible.

what's the good of having news an' ye must coop it? It's like cold veal pie upon the chest for supper, the same being over old, under done, and dry o' gravy.

The pursuit of strength is inherently difficult and entirely worthwhile.

This filing spike is a result of bad information being pushed on people, and then they file for bankruptcy out of fear.

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people. Enable them to see that it is their interest to preserve peace and order, and they will preserve them.