Truth resists simplicity.

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 want to get lose in your eyes and be brought back to reality with your kisses.

The clear light of science teaches us that we must be our own saviors, if we are to be found worth saving.

Blessed is the man that endureth temptation for when he is tried he shall receive the crown of life.

One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.

What Washington needs is adult supervision.

There's something about knowing life is finite that makes it so precious.

We used to have a lot of fun. We never had any problems. We always ate. The fact that we didn't have steak? Who had steak?

Most people won't realise that writing is a craft. You have to take your apprenticeship in it like anything else.

I think life awards you if have your priorities in the right place.

Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, good liberals both, pursued power by offering their candidacies as opportunities for Americans to document their innocence of the nation's past.