“Sometimes you have to go a little crazy before you can find sanity. I think I'm close.”

“Tattoos are a permanent commitment of passion”

“If you're not creating, you're disintegrating.”

“Negative experiences repeat as long as they remain useful to you.”

“This conversation with myself has an overwhelming aroma of narcissism.”

“People add color to their story because they think it happened in black and white.”

“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.”

“Prostitution is not exactly a reputable business over there either, even though the girls actually have to pay taxes on their earnings, and submit to regular health check ups. Even the prostitutes ...”

“.. the smell of canals and cigarette smoke, all the people sitting outside the cafs drinking beer, saying their r's and g's in a way I'd never learn. I missed the future. Obviously I knew even befo...”

“My experience in Amsterdam is that cyclists ride where the hell they like and aim in a state of rage at all pedestrians while ringing their bell loudly, the concept of avoiding people being foreign...”

“European historians have often, though not unanimously, assumed that European modern warfare was the one true path, a system that developed logically and inevitably from the nature of the advancing...”

“The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe in blood for cent”

“Those [things] that we encounter for the first time immediately have a spiritual effect upon us. A child, for whom every object is new, experiences the world in this way: it sees light, is attracte...”

“Because your character is always full of ambition, the news of my being locked up must have been much harder on you than it was on me. When I was arrested, it was almost a relief to know that I cou...”

“Spiritual learning is easy when we realize and experience that everything that everyone said about spirituality is already in action within us!!! Seek within rather than outside.”