The Degree to which I am blessed staggers me... the degree to which I take that for granted shames me.-Streetwalking with Jesus

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.

The Fall is where the nation is. The Fall is the locus of America.

I hope to make the most expensive movie in history at some point!

It is harder to cut our gains than to cut our losses.

Everybody's a complex person. Everybody. Everybody's nuanced.

Some people say, therefore, that violence and war are inevitable. I say rubbish: Our brains are fully capable of controlling instinctive behavior.

God is working on your problem. Stay calm. Stay sweet. Stay out of fear and keep on keeping on.

Talking about auditions, you never know what anyone else is thinking.

Rock is stronger than any misguided theories of cultural events. It's bigger than that.

However it may be confounded or covered up or counterfeited, this elemental capacity to fight against injustice remains the distinguishing characteristic of human beings.

The juggle of sophistry consists, for the most part, in using a word in one sense in all the premises, and in another sense in the conclusion.