There is no Them. There are only facets of Us.

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.

So do flux and reflux--the rhythm of change--alternate and persist in everything under the sky.

Nobody read books, but women, parsons and idle people.

Even if we are spared destruction by war, our lives will have to change if we want to save life from self-destruction.

Walt Disney believed in himself instead of worrying what others were saying.

My Toussaint [Louverture] film is in limbo. We still hope after all this time that we can find another way to get this film done.

To make mistakes is human, but to profit from them is divine.

The most important things in life happen over conversations while eating.

Acts perpetrated by women, particularly attractive women, get far more media attention.

I like talking to priests, to Catholics. Everyone has their beliefs.

Peace is the precious fruit of a righteous life. It is possible because of the Atonement of the Savior. It is earned through full repentance, for that leads to refreshing forgiveness.