The vast majority of us imagine ourselves as like literature people or math people. But the truth is that the massive processor known as the human brain is neither a literature organ or a math...

I was surprised. I’d always associated belief in heaven with, frankly, a kind of intellectual disengagement. But Gus wasn’t dumb.

So I came here looking for a Great Perharps

I thought: That is the fear: I have lost something important, and I cannot find it, and I need it. It is fear like if someone lost his glasses and went to the glasses store...

I believe the universe wants to be noticed. I think the universe is improbably biased toward the consciousness, that it rewards intelligence in part because the universe enjoys its elegance being observed.

…stories don’t just make us matter to each other—maybe they’re also theonly way to the infinite mattering he’d been after for so long.

[T]here is something to recommend a story that ends.

I know love is real because I feel it.

Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we’re quoting.

Sometimes you lose a battle. But mischief always wins the war

She’s still taking on water.” A desert blessing, an ocean curse.What else? She is so beautiful. You don’t get tired of looking at her. You never worry if she is smarter than you: You know...

Incidentally, did you know that the whole eight glasses a day thing is complete bullshit and has no scientific basis? So many things are like that. Everyone just assumes they’re true, because people are basically...

We grow up. Planets like Tiny get new moons. Moons like me get new planets.

Augustus Waters was the Mayor of the Secret City of Cancervania, and he is not replaceable”, Isaac began.”Other people will be able to tell you funny stories about Gus, because he was a funny guy,...

…It sounded like a dragon breathing in time with me, like I had this pet dragon who was cuddled up next to me and cared enough about me to time his breaths to mine.

Maybe I was supposed to hate Caroline Mathers or something because she’d been with Augustus, but I didn’t. I couldn’t see her very clearly amid all the tributes, but there didn’t seem to be much...

‎These little contradictions are in all of us. They’re in me at least. And so I forgot that I had been awake for 30 hours and kept walking, grateful to be a little boat full...

We just did an awesome job of not dying.

Sorry,” I said to the Duke.”Eh, it’s not your fault. It’s Carla’s fault. You were turning the wheel. Carla just wasn’t listening. I knew I shouldn’t have loved her. She’s like all the others, Tobin;...

I’m really not up for answering any questions that start with how, when, where, why, or what.