I'm a big believer in pairing classics with contemporary literature, so students have the opportunity to see that literature is not a cold, dead thing that happened once but instead a vibrant mode of storytelling that's been with us a long time - and will be with us, I hope, for a long time to come.

We Play the broken string of our instruments one last time

Some wars," he said dismissively. "What am I at war with? My cancer. And what is my cancer? My cancer is me. The tumors are made of me. They're made of me as surely as my brain and my heart is made of me. It is a civil war, Hazel Grace, with a predetermined winner.

I'm not asexual. I'm arelationshipal.

Writing does not resurrect. It buries.

The snow may be falling in the winter of my discontent, but at least I've got sarcastic company.

Worry is yet another side effect of dying.