There is not shortage of fault to be found amidst our stars.

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.

Where does it lead, this rockrose path?

the happiest among us will be most altruistic, most distinct, most benevolent and most awkward to some of us in a way.

Never wish for someone else's life because you never know if they also wish yours was theirs.

I have become a prisoner of the peace movement. But you can't say that the termination is coming and then say that you are going back to your own garden to dig.

Last night at Carnegie Hall, Jack Benny played Mendelssohn. Mendelssohn lost.

I always wanted to be a serious journalist.

Cherish all your happy moments.

Independence-is loyalty to one's best self and principles, and this is often disloyalty to the general idols and fetishes.

For what did the creator prepare me,Why did he so terribly contradictThe hopes of my youth?

A good teacher explains, while a great teacher inspires