Things belong to the people that use them, not to the people who create them.

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.

i know more than i know and must learn it from myself

I read, write and create. I must lose myself in work, so that there is no space for the other/anything else.

A demonic reaper asked to be my valentine and then killed his crazy ex-girlfriend to save my life. Tomorrow I was starting up antipsychotic meds.

The nation was awakened by that deafening shot.

I would trust citizen journalism as much as I would trust citizen surgery.

The importation of gold and silver is not the principal, much less the sole benefit which a nation derives from its foreign trade.

Even when I was coming through school I was a loner and I used to study music and listen to it and play it and play it, and I was in bands.

Faith is a refusal to panic, come what may.

Every new Fashion is a refusal to inherit, a subversion against the oppression of the preceding Fashion; Fashion experiences itself as a Right, the natural right of the present over the past.

Grownups have to say 'please,' too.