The real heroes anyway aren't the people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention.

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.

Aha! #20 It's not what happens to you in life, it's what you do with what happens that counts.

Success requires first expending 10 units of effort to produce one unit of results. Your momentum will then produce 10 units of results with each unit of effort.

As with all children, the feeling that I was useful was perhaps the greatest joy I experienced.

Congress is back in season.

Men are creatures with eight hands.

I don’t think there’s any such thing as male objectification

Backups are for wimps. Real men upload their data to an FTP site and have everyone else mirror it.

imagination is new reality in the process of being created. It represents the part of the existing order that can still grow.

Artists are able to do well in the political arena because of fame, if only they can educate themselves.

I'm suspicious of people who talk about their feelings to the whole world