feeling - probably for the first time in my life - the fear and excitement of living in a place where you never know what's going to happen or when.

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 began to understand that suffering and disappointments and melancholy are there not to vex us or cheapen us or deprive us of our dignity but to mature and transfigure us.

Properly speaking, history is nothing but the crimes and misfortunes of the human race.

I am perhaps unusual in that I came to 'Doctor Who' through the numerous novelisations and not through the television show.

You've got to play for whoever you play for.

[The photographer's task] is to describe the existing light... Chances are, if you believe the light, you're going to believe that the things photographed existed in the world.

I liked animals more than people! OK, I liked certain people, but the idea of mankind'-it really irritated me!

Kierkegaard was by far the most profound thinker of the last century. Kierkegaard was a saint.

In good company, the individuals merge their egotism into a social soul exactly co-extensive with the several consciousnesses there present.

If you have a sense of style and purpose and will you don't want to compromise.

A modest little person, with much to be modest about.