Dutch is not so much a language as an ailment of the throat.

You know how we make a Scotch and water in this home?" "No, sir," Gus said. "We pour Scotch into a glass and then call to mind thoughts of water, and then we mix the actual Scotch with the abstracted idea of water.

He specialized in the murder of dreams, Hazel Grace.

We cannot be born, and we cannot die. Like all energy, we can only change shapes and sizes and manifestations.

When you leave a place, it's best to leave.

The sky is like a monochromatic contemporay painting, drawing me in its illusion of depth, pulling me up.

I didn't want to look at them, so I looked away, and to look away was to look at Augustus.