Nothing perhaps is strange once you have accepted life itself the great strange business which includes all lesser strangeness.

It is a common delusion that you make things better by talking about them.

Life, for all its agonies...is exciting and beautiful, amusing and artful and endearing...and whatever is to come after it -- we shall not have this life again.

So they left the subject and played croquet, which is a very good game for people who are annoyed with one another, giving many opportunities for venting rancor.

At the worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.

Once you get to know your neighbors, you are no longer free, you are all tangled up, you have to stop and speak when you are out and you never feel safe when you are in.

The great and recurrent question about Abroad is, is it worth the trouble of getting there?

Human passions against eternal laws -- that is the everlasting conflict.

To lunch with the important ... that should be the daily goal of those for whom life is not a playground but a ladder.

The impulse to ask questions is among the more primitive human lusts.

As to the family, I have never understood how that fits in with the other ideals -- or, indeed, why it should be an ideal at all.

Purify your heart with prayer.

Those were strange days, now that I look back at them. In the midst of life, everything revolved around death.

it is with this same imperialism that present-day simulators attempt to make the real, all of the real, coincide with their models of simulation.

Oh, I wouldn't mind, Hazel Grace. It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.

God primes the pump of obligation.

Choice is your greatest power. It is an even greater power than love, because you must first choose to be a loving person.

I loved to press the shutter, to freeze time, to turn little slices of life into rectangle rife with metaphor.

Wit, like hunger, will be with great difficulty restrained from falling on vice and ignorance, where there is great plenty and variety of food.

There are no coincidences.

The time to guard against corruption and tyranny is before they shall have gotten hold of us.