I liked being a person. I wanted to keep at it.

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.

We all long for Eden, and we are constantly glimpsing it: our whole nature at its best and least corrupted, its gentlest and most human, is still soaked with the sense of exile.

In chaos is where learning happens the most.

Knowledge is so comforting, but so is mystery.

The thing that makes 'Dirty Jobs' different is that it's one of the few shows that portrays work in a way that doesn't highlight the drudgery. Instead, it highlights the humor.

Become aware of internal, subjective, sub-verbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction.

I'm so organised. I never screw up. I've done it maybe twice before. I check my calendar seven times a day.

Mathematics is the source of a wicked intellect that, while making man the lord of the earth, also makes him the slave of the machine.

I've always been a bit of a sound freak in the movies I've done.

I was just thinking, if it is really religion with these nudist colonies, they sure must turn atheists in the wintertime.

It's always fun to improvise. What's weird is that when you're recording, you're by yourself, for the most part.