I want more numbers than I’m likely to get, and God, I want more numbers for Augustus Waters than he got. But, Gus, my love, I cannot tell you how thankful I am for our little infinity. I wouldn’t trade it for the world. You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I’m grateful.

Nothing to be gained by worrying between now and then.

When you’re as charming and physically attractive as myself, it’s easy enough to win over people you meet. But getting strangers to love you...now, that’s the trick.

I realized during my time as a chaplain that I didn't want to be a minister.

the problem is not suffering itself or oblivion itself but the depraved meaninglessness of these things, the absolutely inhuman nihilism of suffering.

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

And I wrote my way out of the labyrinth.