Walt Whitman is HOT! I mean, that guy could sound his barbaric yawps over the roofs of my world any time.

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.

People aren't born good or bad. Maybe they're born with tendencies either way, but its the way you live your life that matters.

Reality is what trips you up when you walk around with your eyes closed.

Do not carry the burden of self-judgment. You are forgiven and pardoned

The fuel of ambition is not the problem

The time is just right to take risks and tell stories the way we want to tell them.

Focus on the competition to diminish the time dedicated to internal politics.

Don't choose me. I'm not worth your time.

I've always had an interest in vampire films - not just 'Nosferatu,' but there are many others that I have enjoyed: Abel Ferrara,Coppola, Neil Jordan.

Knowledge is understanding based on what has been studied and learned. Wisdom is understanding based on what has been felt and experienced.

He doesn't need my help coming up with pranks. He's got too many ideas of his own. - Daja referring to Briar in their first year at Discipline cottage