(...) and then I realized there was no one else to call, which was the saddest thing. The only person I really wanted to talk to about Augustus Water's death was Augustus Water.

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.

As you turn into a daddy, soon now, you’ll find that, on marrying, a man and woman start actually living.

I really try to forget. I only look at my old works if there's an interview and someone asks me about it. Otherwise, it's not even in the rearview mirror.

I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.

There are no frictions between us, there is only rivalry.

Nature is not something to conquer, but something to learn from or to merge with and be part of - to dance with, celebrate.

When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were.

Life, like a child, laughs, shaking its rattle of death as it runs.

I'm very lucky. I actually like screenwriting. I rarely feel a sense of doom going to my desk.

I cherish each director that I have. I want to be maneuvered out of my comfort zones. I don't have the time to prepare.

Logic and sermons never convince, The damp of the night drives deeper into my soul.