I'm a grenade, I just want to stay away from people and read books, and think...

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.

Only men would think of cutting themselves to determine who the packleader is. Idiots.

Your birthday is the vintage of your wine; the mark that warns you of your future.

To be a leader is to communicate constantly, skillfully, intentionally, and strategically

I always tell my kids make your vocation your vacation.

Seek not that the things which happen should happen as you wish; but wish the things which happen to be as they are, and you will have a tranquil flow of life.

My husband is not a jealous person in any way.

Only a country that feels invulnerable can afford political turmoil as entertainment.

Subversive, ethical, ecological, political, humorous ... this is how I see my duty as a designer.

Knowledge is immensely powerful and immensely useful.

You can prevent your opponent from defeating you through defense, but you cannot defeat him without taking the offensive.