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 liked being a person. I wanted to keep at it.

Don't lie to anyone, but particularly don't lie to millennials. They just know. They can smell it. Be yourself: if you're old, be old. If you don't know anything about pop culture, don't pretend to know anything about pop culture. When you credit teenagers with intelligence and emotional sophistication, they respond intelligently and with emotional sophistication.

In the end, what makes a book valuable is not the paper it's printed on, but the thousands of hours of work by dozens of people who are dedicated to creating the best possible reading experience for you.

Osteosarcoma sometimes takes a limb to check you out. The, if it like you, it takes the rest.

I dislike the phrase ‘Internet friends,’ because it implies that people you know online aren’t really your friends, that somehow the friendship is less real or meaningful to you because it happens through Skype or text messages. The measure of a friendship is not its physicality but its significance.

Jesus, I'm not going to be one of those people who sits around talking about what they're going to do. I'm just going to do it.