And so that is the question I leave you with in this final: What is your cause for hope?

I just want you to be happy. If that’s with me or with someone else or with nobody. I just want you to be happy.

It just goes to show, if you try to ruin someone's life, it only gets better. You just don't get to be a part of it.

You can't just make yourself matter and then die, Alaska, because now I am irretrievably different.

According to the conventions of the genre, Augustus Waters kept his sense of humor till the end, did not for a moment waiver in his courage, and his spirit soared like an indomitable eagle until the world itself could not contain his joyous soul.

You may be smart, but I've been smart longer.

Becoming a father made me much more interested in the parent character in my novels. I've never found parents that interesting.