“I’m not saying that everything is survivable. Just that everything except the last thing is.”

The measure of a friendship is not its physicality but its significance.

God knows that’s what everyone else does.

You are so busy being you that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.

You are so busy being you that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.

Poetry is just so emo.” he said. “Oh, the pain. The pain. It always rains. In my soul.

The good times and the bad times both will pass.

There’s some people in this world who you can just love and love and love no matter what.

There is no glory in illness. There is no meaning to it. There is no honor in dying of.

Crying is you, plus tears.

Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.

What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.

The past feels distant, even when it’s near. The future feels assured, even when it isn’t.

Much of my life had been devoted to trying not to cry in front of people who loved me.

Maybe there is something you’re afraid to say, or someone you’re afraid to love, or somewhere you’re afraid to go. It’s gonna hurt. It’s gonna hurt because it matters.

It is so hard to leave, until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.

Y’all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die.

Mankind is made of two kinds of people: wise people who know they’re fools, and fools who think they are wise.

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.

Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know.

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

You treat a disease, you win, you lose. You treat a person, I guarantee you, you’ll win, no matter what the outcome.

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.

A fool can become a Genius when he understands he is a fool but. A Genius can become a fool when he understands he is a Genius.