The human tongue is like wasabi: it's very powerful, and should be used sparingly.

All good American literature is always interested in people who are ambiguously heroic, like Gatsby.

Not the brightest gem in the jewelry shop, but you've got to admire his single-minded dedication to drug abuse.

I still think that maybe the "afterlife" is just something we made up to ease the pain of loss, to make our time in the labyrinth bearable. Maybe we are just matter, and matter gets recycled

The easiest way to solve a mystery is to decide that there is no mystery to solve.

Augustus Waters was the great star-crossed love of my life. Ours was an epic love story, and I won’t be able to get more than a sentence into it without disappearing into a puddle of tears. Gus knew. Gus knows. I will not tell you our love story, because—like all real love stories—it will die with us, as it should.

Our lives are composed of a finite set of moments that we choose how to spend.