The world went on, as it does, without my full participation, and I only woke up from the reverie when someone said my name.

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.

It's a grand thing to be able to take your money in your hand and to think no more of it when it slips away from you than you would a trout that would slip back into the stream.

Education is the process in which we discover that learning adds quality to our lives. Learning must be experienced.

We see and hear and otherwise experience very largely as we do because the language habits of our community predispose certain choices of interpretation.

I most often land up taking up the roles that I most detest.

It's difficult for writers in the theatre. It's difficult for writers in the theatre.

I remember a day and time when the streets indicated what was hot online, and now I think it's starting to reverse a little bit.

Important benefits often accrue to states that behave in an unexpected way.

By lifting each other up we lift ourselves up

Some say opportunity knocks only once, that is not true. Opportunity knocks all the time, but you have to be ready for it. If the chance comes, you must have the equipment to take advantage of it.

I like to write about women who are talented and capable, but most important, retain their femininity. Women have tremendous power - their femininity, because men can't do without it.