You used, " he said, and then took a sharp breath, "to call me Augustus.

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.

In the end, we always regret the life we failed to live.

Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.

I can only paint in India. Europe belongs to Picasso, Matisse, Braque India belongs only to me.

We are surrounded every day by people who do thankless but important work.

Coolidge's preference for experience over ideas was a deeply rooted trait.

I'm a goody two-shoes who's never taken anything stronger than Tylenol.

In order to keep pace with the influx of work I had to take on fresh hands.

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

A man guilty of poverty easily believes himself suspected.

We don't talk about planes flying. We talk about them crashing.