“Our lives are composed of a finite set of moments that we choose how to spend.”

I ran like a cheetah – well, like a cheetah that smoked too much.

You don’t get to choose if you get hurt in this world but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.

Whatever you’re worried about, you’re bigger than the worries.

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

What’s the meaning of life? Other people.

Not that smart. Not that hot. Not that nice. Not that funny. That’s me: I’m not that.

Books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.

We all use the future to escape the present.

We’re as likely to hurt the universe as we are to help it, and we’re not likely to do either.

What is the point of being alive if you don’t at least try to do something remarkable?

The urge to make art or contemplate philosophy does not go away when you are sick. Those urges just become transfigured by illness.

We’re all just facilitators. The real business is done by readers.

The human tongue is like wasabi: it’s very powerful, and should be used sparingly.

You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.

He liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.

We just did an awesome job of not dying.

So many of us choose our path out of fear disguised as practicality.

I don’t hate you for loving you. I just hate my heart for choosing someone like you.

We may not have chosen the time, but the time has chosen us.

Choose to live in a positive place.

Even those who do not, or cannot, avail themselves of a scientific education, choose to benefit from the technology that is made possible by the scientific education of others.

I’m very aware and very conscious of the path I chose in life, and very aware of the path I didn’t choose.

Why do you have to choose what type of woman you are? Why do you have to label yourself anything?

If you love two people at the same time, choose the second one, because if you really loved the first, you wouldn’t have fallen for the second.