J. Green Quotes

While the cat's away, you may find the rats getting damned uppity.

She's just playing a trick on us. This is just an Alaska Young Prank Extraordinaire. It's Alaska being Alaska, funny and playful and not knowing when or how to put on the brakes.

Congratulations! You're a woman. Now die.

There is a part of her greater than the sum of her knowable parts. And that part has to go somewhere, because it cannot be destroyed.

Some people collect butterflies - I love beetles.

We're going to get gored to death by a feral fugging hog and your best strategy is to pretend it's a grizzly bear?

Tonight, darling, we are going to right a lot of wrongs.

The world went on, as it does, without my full participation, and I only woke up from the reverie when someone said my name.

I hardly ever go to parties. If I really have to, I'll go, but I'm not the most open person, which is sometimes not the best quality.

Beware of that monster called 'self-loathing'.

One man in the right will finally get to be a majority.

At the end of the day, I choose something that makes my heart beat, that I can relate to, that's very complex, or human.

The world is not fair. If you persist in presuming it is, you will create a lot of unnecessary misery for yourself.

but even if we survive the collapse of our sun, we will not survive forever.

The climate of England has been the world's most powerful colonizing impulse.

"And how are you feeling?" asked Patrick."Oh, I'm grand." Augustus Waters smiled with a corner of his mouth. "I'm on a roller coaster that only goes up, my friend."

I've lived here for eighteen years and I have never once in my life come across anyone who cares about anything that matters.

Actually, when I'm not filming a movie, my beauty approach is really natural - I prefer a bare face that looks really healthy and dewy.

Abortion is not a sign that women are free, but a sign that they are desperate.

You can't just make yourself matter and then die, Alaska, because now I am irretrievably different.

Hocus was an old cunning attorney. The words of consecration, "Hoc est corpus," were travestied into a nickname for jugglery, as "Hocus-pocus."

The true ninja doesn't make a splash at all.

When was the last good kiss you had?

He called out to his fellow monks,'Come quickly I am tasting stars.

Lincoln was not a type. He stands alone - no ancestors, no fellows, no successors.

Peter Van Houten was the only person I’d ever come across who seemed to (a) understand what it’s like to be dying, and (b) not have died.

I've never taken any classes or had formal training in writing novels. At its most basic, I learned how to structure a novel.

Everyone has a covenant and a purpose which is special, and if you do not fulfill it, - there is no one else who will.

What is the world coming to, when you can't even trust a rogue vicar and her demon lover?

The doctrine of eternal punishment is in perfect harmony with the savagery of the men who made the orthodox creeds. It is in harmony with torture, with flaying alive, and with burnings.

Wait. You've got principles? We'll have to update your file.

I don't like department stores. I had a chain of department stores back in 1994 which was Lewis's and Owen Owen, only for a short time, and I found department stores personally difficult.

If we are immortal, it is a fact of nature, and that fact does not depend on bibles, on Christs, priest, or creeds.

You're not a little kid anymore. You need to make friends, get out of the house, and live your life.

You've got to be a believer in what you do.

Life is a narrow vale between the cold and barren peaks of two eternities. We strive in vain to look beyond the heights. We cry aloud

There will come a time, when all of us are dead. All of us. There will come a time when there are no human beings remaining to remember that anyone ever existed or that our species ever did anything.

It deserves and warrants conversation because somebody is saying, 'Hey, this offends me,'

Keep your mind too open, and you never know what might walk in.

I'm not really worried about people's perception of what I do, or people's analysis of why I make the decisions I make. I wake up every day with a new interest and a desire for an education.

We idealize them as gods or dismiss them as animals.

I have an Augustus Waters fetish.

When your father directed your mother in 'Orpheus Descending,' the kid's going to be a theater nerd.

Breaking up isn't something that gets done to you; its something that happens with you.

She left me enough to rediscover the Great Perhaps.

The Degree to which I am blessed staggers me... the degree to which I take that for granted shames me. -Streetwalking with Jesus

He wasn't perfect or anything. He wasn;t your fairytale prince charming or whatever. He tried to be like that sometimes,but i liked him best when that stuff fell away.

I really strongly feel that when you approach a drama, you have to approach it with energy, honesty, sincerity, and absolute commitment, or don't do it.

Sometimes in the studio movies I've been working in, you'll put a joke in a movie because the crowd loves it - not because I love it.

"Please stop," I said. "You're upsetting the black Santas."