You see how fake it all is. It's not even hard enough to be made out of plastic. It's a paper town.

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.

If you want to go to a place you have never been before, you have to ask questions you have never asked before. Don't feel shy to ask questions about things you don't know!

Life will succeed life, as we know it.

Being a good person begins with being a wise person. Then, when you follow your conscience, will you be headed in the right direction.

Winners take responsibility, losers blame others.

Some Western biographies are apologist, and do not portray the negative side at all.

It is not the mere study of the Law, but to become eminent in the profession of it, which is to yield honor and profit.

I could always live in my art but never in my life

I've been doing stand-up 29 years; there is no other career when you're finding your stride 30 years into it.

People tend to romanticize this job. So, it's fun to let the air out of it.

My riches are my family and my foster children. I try to store any material wealth in my hand, not my heart, so that I always feel free to give it away when the opportunity arises.