They were angry, I thought. Horrified. These teenagers, with their hormones, making out beneath a video broadcasting the shattered voice of a former father.

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.

There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness but of power. They are messengers of overwhelming grief and unspeakable love.

His eyes are so intense I want to look away . . . or never look away, I can’t decide.

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.― Mark Twain, The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain

For good work to develop the technology needs to become as stable and functional as a typewriter.

Prayer is the laying aside of thoughts.

We will export death and violence to the four corners of the earth in defense of our great nation.

The chicken had his wish, and was magically transformed into a fox. Then he found that he could not digest grain.

I think sometimes I don't realise how much the pressure gets to me.

I think you only really feel like an outsider if you've been an insider.

In popular government results worth while can only be achieved by men who combine worthy ideals with practical good sense.