Walt Whitman is HOT! I mean, that guy could sound his barbaric yawps over the roofs of my world any time.
John GreenA taste so profound and complex that it can't even be compared to other tastes, only to emotions. Cheesy waffles, I was thinking, tastes like love without the fear of love's dissolution.
John GreenAnd then I screwed up and the Colonel screwed up and Takumi screwed up and she slipped through our fingers.
John GreenI have to tell you man, that my stalker meter is kind of registering in the red zone right now.
John GreenThere's not a lot of room for un-ironic emotion in contemporary culture. I think that irony is an important tool in dealing with the world as we find it. It's a tool of protection, but it can also be a tool of incision to get to some truth. But along the way maybe we've lost some of what I think of as the power of straightforward emotion and earnestness and seriousness.
John Green