J. Green Quotes

This crime called blasphemy was invented by priests for the purpose of defending doctrines not able to take care of themselves.

I've never tried to be controversial. The truth is controversial enough.

For people to judge a man's worth and his very manhood according to the way he feels about sport, and not to recognize it for the piddly, inconsequential goings on that it really is.

As long as we don't die, this is gonna be one hell of a story.

This is so much fun, but I’m so sleepy. To be continued?

No woman wants an abortion as she wants an ice cream cone or a Porsche. She wants an abortion as an animal caught in a trap wants to gnaw off its own leg.

As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.

The Red Wheelbarrow" by William Carlos Williams. So much depends upom a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens.

A believer is a bird in a cage, a freethinker is an eagle parting the clouds with tireless wing.

Lord, forgive the times I tried to read your mind.

Headline?" he asked. "'Swing Set Needs Home,'" I said. "'Desperately Lonely Swing Set Needs Loving Home,'" he said. "'Lonely, Vaguely Pedophilic Swing Set Seeks the Butts of Children,'" I said.

That's always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people want to be around someone because they're pretty. It's like picking your breakfeast cereals based on color instead of taste.

What you must understand about me is that I’m a deeply unhappy person.

I want to travel. Maybe I'll end up living in Norway, making cakes.

The human tongue is like wasabi: it's very powerful, and should be used sparingly.

There was a time when religion ruled the world. It is known as the Dark Ages.

Let's make a deal: You figure out what the labyrinth is and how to get out of it, and i'll get you laid. -Alaska Young

You have attributed conditions to villainy that simply result from stupidity.

There are any number of magical creatures, mostly female, whose singing can bring about horror and death. Sirens, undines, banshees, Bananarama tribute bands...

She has enough black eyeliner on to outline a corpse, and her skin's so pale she looks like she's just broken dawn.

Maybe there is something you're afraid to say, or someone you're afraid to love, or somewhere you're afraid to go. It's gonna hurt. It's gonna hurt because it matters.

I had met a young lady who wanted to be in the theater. It was Judy Holliday. She had somehow fallen down the steps of the Village Vanguard, which still exists today.

We are the superhero, none of us individually, but all of us together.

I'm a bad boyfriend. She's a bad girlfriend. We deserve each other.

Wait, wait. I don't get it.' 'That is because you only have eight functioning brain cells.

I'm in the retail business, not the circus business.

When I die I just want to be remembered as a Christian.

I really like umbrellas. It's like, I have a roof! I carry it with me! Umbrellas always amuse me.

I thought I had too much money to be happy and normal. Thousand of pounds is just too much for a working person to handle all of a sudden, and I felt I didnt deserve it.

It's all about quality of life and finding a happy balance between work and friends and family.

A child's fear is a world whose dark corners are quite unknown to grownup people; it has its sky and its abysses, a sky without stars, abysses into which no light can ever penetrate.

I wonder how many people don't get the one they want, but end up with the one they're supposed to be with.

In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds.

If you don't imagine, nothing ever happens at all.

God is, to me, pretty much a myth created over time to deny the idea that we're all responsible for our own actions.

The more you leave out, the more you highlight what you leave in.

Forever is composed of nows.

We rise by lifting others.

We make ourselves up as we go.

I studied every page of this book, and I didn't find enough love to fill a salt shaker. God is not love in the Bible; God is vengeance, from Alpha to Omega.

If you have fun when you practice, you may also learn more and perform better

I like characters who have strong facades and then have secrets. They have cracks.

Don't you see all the people sinking down? Don't you care? Are you gonna let them drown?

I always like to say that it's chic to be a geek.

I started concentrating so hard on my vision that I lost sight.

I cannot write long books; I leave that for those who have nothing to say.

Good design is partially creativity and innovation, but primarily knowledge and awareness.

One day, you’re 17 and you’re planning for someday. And then quietly, without you ever really noticing, someday is today. And then someday is yesterday. And this is your life.

All roads lead to the judgment seat of Christ.

Our lives are composed of a finite set of moments that we choose how to spend.