I wondered if hurdlers ever thought, you know, "This would go faster if we just got rid of the hurdles.

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.

Sometimes I think everyone's an attorney.

Poor people do not go on holiday

There are the medical dangers of football in general caused by head trauma over repetitive hits.

People can say what they want but it doesn't stop me from doing what I'm crazy about doing.

No one's just going to hand you a career. I waited for years for someone to hand me one and it never happened.

It is hard for a free fish to understand what is happening to a hooked one.

For me, selfishly, Toronto is my favorite city in the world. It's the greatest city and you have the whole world here.

When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest...and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war

In fact, I was too dumb to save any of the old comic books or the old artwork. I used to give them away.

I never thought of political endeavors primarily in terms of power and prestige, and I never thought of economic endeavors primarily in terms of wealth and position.