dating you would be like a series of unnecessary root canals interspersed with occasional makeout sessions.

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.

Don’t waste time on employment, discover yourself today

Everything in nature invites us constantly to be what we are.

Pain's nothing. Pains what you give, not what you get.

Funny how people that don't believe in nothin' are so quick to believe every crazy story about people like us.

People who regard themselves as highly efficacious act, think, and feel differently from those who perceive themselves as inefficacious. They produce their own future, rather than simply foretell it.

It's the bullies who are afraid, are the ones that do all the fighting. It's not the secure kids that get out there and fight. It's the insecure kids.

You may lose by it now and then, but it will be a loss well gained if you do.

I think the endeavor is to just make your film and then hope it travels as much as it can.

Eating chicken without skin is like riding a bike without wheels

You're only kidding yourself if you put creativity before craft.