What a selfish boy you are. You wished for the world and she could only give you the skies.

You’re either the one that creates the automation or you’re getting automated.

Do not ghettoize society by putting people into legal categories of gender, race, ethnicity, language, or other such characteristics.

I was actually lost in Beirut on the way home.

He must not laugh at his own wheeze: a snuff box has no right to sneeze.

That's one of the tragedies of this life - that the men who are most in need of a beating up are always enormous.

When I'm old and dying, I plan to look back on my life and say 'wow, that was an adventure,' not 'wow, I sure felt safe.'

The Beatles did treat me as a member of the group. And that was a great honor, you know?

I did all my directing when I wrote the screenplay. It was probably harder for a regular director. He probably had to read the script the night before shooting started.

If equations are trains threading the landscape of numbers, then no train stops at pi.

I think by being happy it actually affects the way that you look too.

The way you separate Reality from Imagination is the number of bandages you have to use.

Men are always ready to die for us, but not to make our lives worth having. Cheap sentiment and bad logic.

Lord Bacchus, do you remember me? I helped you with that missing leopard in Sonoma." Bacchus scratched his stubbly chin. "Ah... yes. John Green." "Jason Grace.""Whatever, " the god said.

I'm the cofounder of Keep a Child Alive. We provide medicine for families affected by HIV and AIDS in places like Africa and India.

He knew that Dr. Argon would advise him against bottling up his emotions as it would lead to psychological scarring in the long term.

I rarely play a real person, because I don't think I'm a good imitator.

Words can be used for venal purposes. Words are incredible sources of propaganda and can cause terrible havoc.

The sky is the source of light in Nature and it governs everything.

It's not the case of turning in a bunch of songs and recording the next month. I think you're looking for songs all year long and you're writing all year long.

One of the strange laws of the contemplative life is that in it you do not sit down and solve problems: you bear with them until they somehow solve themselves. Or until life solves them for you.