Books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.

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.

I liked that he was a tenured professor in the Department of Slightly Crooked Smiles with a dual appointments in the Department of Having a Voice that Made My Skin Feel More Like Skin.

Oh, I wouldn't mind, Hazel Grace. It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.

I'll fight it. I'll fight it for you. Don't you worry about me, Hazel Grace. I'm okay. I'll find a way to hang around and annoy you for a long time.

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

You are so busy being YOU that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.

No matter how hard you kick, no matter how high you get, you can't go all the way around.

It's not life or death, the labyrinth. Suffering. Doing wrong and having wrong things happen to you.

That's the thing about pain, it demands to be felt.

You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.

Zen is not some kind of excitement, but concentration on our usual everyday routine.

So as near as I could tell the end of the world began roughly about the time that Billy Carver’s butt rang about halfway through the War of 1812.

I'm asking God to bless you with something that unsettles you, disturbs you, and upsets you.

A person who has the power to take a life, should have the intelligence to choose not to.

And there was something else, it seemed, now permanently part of her life. Doubt, and suspicion too, filled all that there was room for in her waking thoughts.

One of the biggest problems that software developers face is that technology changes rapidly. It is very hard to stay current.

I believe the only measure of government response shouldn't be how much we spend on a situation, but rather how well we spend.

Beans are a real go-to for me.

I didn't really have any interest in producing anything.

One of my goals is to allow readers to see my characters and the world they inhabit as vividly as possible.