As a child I was an inveterate liar. As opposed to now, I am a Novelist.

It has been my experience that maximizing income is a helluva lot less important than maximizing passion and fulfillment in your both professionally and personally.

It is a good life, Hazel Grace.

Chicago is the Great American City, and it was really great to live there during a time of economic expansion and opportunity and growth. I felt like I was living at the center of the world. Unlike New York, no one expects you to be a professional writer.

She was loved deeply, but not widely

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.

Television is a passivity.