I will not tell you our love story, because-like all real love stories-it will die with us, as it should.

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.

I pursued education not instead of being a good mother, but because being a good mother required that I build a better life for my family.

(Adversity is) the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself being especially free from admirers then.

I think there is a level of altruism that wants to help fellow human beings.

If you can marry a handsome man or a beautiful woman and you have two choices and both people are equally nice or obnoxious, you might as well marry the wealthy one.

You can never pat yourself on the back during the season. Then you get complacent, stop working and let yourself slide.

This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.

I love working with Liev [Schreiber]. I've known him for a long time. I just think he is a master. Few actors are so self-possessed and so focused and so confident.

Wow," came a familiar voice, "Hypochondriac killed the cat." -Dess

Let us not depend upon the world for pleasure.

You should approach Joyce's Ulysses as the illiterate Baptist preacher approaches the Old Testament: with faith.