John Green
John Green
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth24 August 1977
CountryUnited States of America
imagining-the-future alaska labyrinth
You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth...
thinking riches wanted
I think that most of us [writers] would rather have an audience than countless riches. If we wanted to be rich, we'd be doing smething else.
girl nerd world
Nerd girls are the world's greatest under-utilized romantic resource.
ideas strange defined
. . . Endlessness is a really strange idea in a universe that is defined by its endings.
hurt real important
The truth hurts because it's real. It hurts because it mattered. And that's an important thing to acknowledge to yourself.
heaven dumb intellectual
I was surprised. I'd always associated belief in heaven with, frankly, a kind of intellectual disengagement. But Gus wasn't dumb.
parent matter patient
Patients are almost always preceded by their parents, because no matter how fast an ambulance can drive, terrified parents can drive faster.
cancer giving chance
But of course there is always a hamartia and yours is that oh, my God, even though you HAD FREAKING CANCER you give money to a company in exchange for the chance to acquire YET MORE CANCER.
study
Study broadly and without fear.
children character dark
In general, watching children's television is a dark and surreal descent into madness where the characters on the screen talk directly to you.
sex two interesting
Sexuality is important, but it's certainly not the most interesting or important thing happening to you right now. We live in a world that tells us that there are only two important things. One is the acquisition of goods and the other is either the acquisition or avoidance of sex, but it turns out that the question of who's a virgin and who's a virgout is not the most interesting question.
sex thinking people
In English, we don't have a word for people who aren't virgins. What the non-virgin lexical gap really made me think was that our obsession with sexual purity is such that once you are no longer this THING, you are indescribable.
two people house
The United States Congress, like a lot of rich people, lives in two houses.
thinking remembers-you remember-you
Just a word of advice. Whenever you're furious with your parents or you think they're terrible, just remember, you vomited on them and they kept you.