And then, having made my rhetorical point, I will put my robot eyes on, because I mean, with robot eyes you can probably see through girls’ shirts and stuff. Augustus, my friend, Godspeed.
He was vain: I do not believe I have ever met a more physically attractive person who was more acutely aware of his own physical attractiveness.
Sometimes people don’t understand the promises they’re making when they make them.
You can love someone so much... But you can never love people as much as you can miss them.
You may choose your song, but know this: Tiny. Cooper. Hates. Over. The. Rainbow.
Great books help you understand, and they help you feel understood.
I think people who are religious are more likely to want one around, but it’s a very secular position.
The miracle and hope of human consciousness is that we can still conceive of boundlessness.
I feel like, like, how you matter is defined by the things that matter to you. You matter as much as the things that matter to you.
The world may be broken, but hope is not crazy.
I wouldn’t have a career if it weren’t for independent bookstores.
I’m interested in Internet cultures. I’m interested in what the teenagers who drive the Internet culture are passionate about. I follow their lead – they go to tumblr, I go to tumblr.
All good American literature is always interested in people who are ambiguously heroic, like Gatsby.
Waffles are just awesome bread.
If you don’t live a life in service of a greater good, you’ve gotta at least die a death in service of a greater good, you know? And I fear that I won’t get either a life or a death that means anything.
Gus knew. Gus knows. I will not tell you our love story, because – like all real love stories – it will die with us, as it should. I’d hoped that he’d be eulogizing me.
If we restructure things to see that the hero’s journey is a degree in astrophysics rather than a journey to star in a reality show, that’s a better world.
One of the jobs of a writer is to add nuance and ambiguity to that straight line that people often draw to very specific kinds of heroism. Most of us don’t get to be Snooki. For most of us heroism has to be in our everyday lives.
It hurts because it mattered.
Becoming a father made me much more interested in the parent character in my novels. I’ve never found parents that interesting.