But of course there is always a hamartia and yours is that oh, my God, even though you HAD FREAKING CANCER you give money to a company in exchange for the chance to acquire YET MORE CANCER.

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.

To pursue happiness for its own sake is the surest way to lose it.

Perfection is not to be attained, but to be pursued infinitely.

You can never tell how high you could climb on the ladder of success until you start giving your goals some honest courageous attempts.

If you want to know the value of a week ask the editor of a weekly magazine if he fails to meet up with the target of his weekly publication.

My ideal Valentine's Day is spending it with someone you are in love with and for that someone to make you feel loved and appreciated.

Belief in ourself is like a muscle - it is strengthened by constant and careful use.

Art disturbs, science reassures.

Extraordinary accomplishments are only achieved when we are able to overcome extraordinary challenges.

Many anti-energy groups display little appreciation of the extent to which modern economies depend pervasively on the use of fossil fuels and petrochemical products.

The feeling that 'no one is listening to me' make us want to spend time with machines that seem to care about us.