My cancer is me. The tumors are made of me. They’re made of me as surely as my brain and my heart are made of me. It is a civil war with a predetermined winner

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.

The past will not tell us what we ought to do but... what we ought to avoid.

Children born of married parents in America face a higher risk of seeing them break up than children born of unmarried parents in Sweden.

My stand-up act is very clean.

So yo then man what's your story?

When one writes, there’s the double horror of discovering not only what it is that one so fears but also the triviality of that fear.

All religions united with government are more or less inimical to liberty. All, separated from government, are compatible with liberty.

an imitator is always a poor example.

Being positive does not mean ignoring the negative. Being positive means overcoming the negative.

Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength be given to every up-springing plant of duty.

It's easy to create a country, all you have to do is to think of a name for it