That was the worst part about having cancer, sometimes: The physical evidence of disease separates you from other people.

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.

Hold on to anything you find that's good and workable for you. Drop anything negative where you find it.

I don't think the dreams die - I think that people give up. I think it gets too hard.

I'm wishing this was something else I was writing, but, Pops, we've got to let you know we love you and know you'll always be with us.

"Centurion" is probably one of my favorites [of RZA Day ].

all at once I saw that the sun was round! Since then I have been the happiest man on Earth!

What would you think of a person who always wanted things from you but never offered a word of thanks in return? We can be that way with God, can't we? Let's remember to thank Him.

An optimist is a man who sees everything half as bad and twice as good as it is.

If you do not love Christ, let me tell you plainly what is the reason. You have no sense of debt to him.

Change art to include yourself.

People idealize or reminisce about their 20s, but nobody tells you beforehand that it's hard and unglamorous and often very unpleasant.