I'm telling you, Augustus Waters talked so much that he'd interrupt you at his own funeral.

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.

Are you kidding? I'm supposed to put my books in this filthy tin coffin?

We begin to become divine by learning to love like the divine loves. And how does the divine love? It loves everyone-including you-freely and without conditions.

I do remember, and then when I try to remember, I forget.

Gold, on the contrary, though of little use compared with air or water, will exchange for a great quantity of other goods.

Sports will always be important in global culture, and so fashion, as a reflection of cultural trends, will always incorporate influences from sports.

We're principled in the direction we're heading, but we're not going to be stubborn.

It's typical of Mormon people to love all people, but especially Jewish people.

One of the deep routed motivations for looking at our connection to snow and its journey to our mountains came from Bryan Iguchi, who I rode with a lot when I was just a teenager.

Everything I write now might have roots in myths, often disguised,often dissolved into new multi-ethnic myths of my own making.

Morally it makes no difference whether a person is killed in war or condemned to starve by the indifference of others.