So here's my advice: Study broadly and without fear. Learn a language if you can, because that will make your life more interesting. Read a little bit every day. But more importantly, surround yourself with people who you like and make cool stuff with them. In the end, what you do isn't going to be nearly as interesting or important as who you do it with.

Observation: It would be awesome to fly in a superfast airplane that could chase the sunrise around the world for a while.

I can't imagine us saying these things to each other out loud. But even if I can't imagine hearing these words, I can imagine living them. I don't even picture it. Instead I'm in it. How I would feel with him here. That peace. It would be so happy, and it makes me sad because it only exists in words.

There's no reason whatsoever to drink eight glasses of water a day unless you, for whatever reason, particularly like the taste of water

I'm a grenade and at some point I'm going to blow up and I would like to minimize the casualties, okay?

depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying.

Like all sick children,' he answered dispassionately, 'you say you don't want pity, but your very existence depends upon it.