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.

As I followed Margo's directions through the maze of one-way streets, we saw a few people sleeping on the sidewalk or sitting on benches, but nobody was moving. Margo rolled down the window, and I felt the thick air blow across my face, warmer than night ought to be. I glanced over and saw strands of her hair blowing all around her face. Even though I could see her there, I felt entirely alone among these big and empty buildings, like I'd survived the apocalypse and the world had been given to me, this whole and amazing and endless world, mine for the exploring.

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

You used," he said, and then took a sharp breath, "to call me Augustus.

It is very sad to me that some people are so intent on leaving their mark on the world that they don’t care if that mark is a scar.

We acknowledge that being the person God made you cannot separate you from God's love.

He loved the scratching of pencil against paper when he was focused: it meant something was happening.