Who am I to say that these things might nit be forever? Who is Peter Van Houten to assert as fact the conjecture that our labor is temporary?

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.

Ieder beest bidt op zijn manier.

There's more than enough for the many, but somehow never enough for the few

Sketches have characters, exits, entrances and are vastly different.

I never like to use those terms [like pessimistic].

Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.

I always imagine that if I met Dr. Seuss, he would be very similar to Crispin Glover.

We believe that the cinema's capacity for getting around, for observing and selecting from life itself can be exploited in a new and vital art form

People think that I'm haughty and stuck up, but really I'm just very shy.

People are always telling me that they've seen people reading my books on the subway, or the beach, or whenever.

The US is safest when Congress is in recess.