Discussion Guide Quotes

#1. DID YOU KNOW WHETHER OR NOT [SPOILER REDACTED BECAUSE I KNOW PEOPLE WILL READ THIS DISCUSSION GUIDE BEFORE THEY'VE READ THE BOOK, EVEN THOUGH I JUST FORBADE YOU TO DO SO LIKE SIX PARAGRAPHS AGO] WAS INTENTIONAL WHILE YOU WERE WRITING IT?

John Green

#2. On that Sunday of the Masters I remember turning on ESPN to find people talking about me. I switched over to the Golf Channel and people were talking about me. It was hard to escape.

Rory McIlroy

#3. One of the very important characteristics of a student is to question. Let the students ask questions.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

#4. You want women to think of you in a sexy manner. It's all part of the business. It drives ticket sales. It's all a part of it.

Luke Bryan

#5. There's no point vilifying wild animals for a random incident.

Maggie Stiefvater

#6. He who would eat much must eat little, for by eating less he will live longer, and so be able to eat more.

Luigi Cornaro

#7. The enemy," retorted Yossarian with weighted precision, "is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on, and that includes Colonel Cathcart. And don't you forget that, because the longer you remember it, the longer you might live.

Joseph Heller

#8. IAR is policy, always has been.

Jimmy Wales

#9. I am kind of like the guide, the leader of this discussion. It could be from me, it could be from other people, it could be a mixture. It's a real sort of guild. I lead it and direct it and inspire it.

Rei Kawakubo

#10. Unless hours were cups of sack, and minutes capons, and clocks the tongues of bawds, and dials the signs of leaping-houses, and the blessed sun himself a fair hot wench in flame-colored taffeta, I see no reason why thou shouldst be so superfluous to demand the time of the day.

William Shakespeare

#11. To complete your daily mental hygiene, observe any part of you that is upset or anxious, and offer that part of yourself the following simple wishes: 'May you be well. May you be happy. May you be free from suffering.' Repeat this until you actually mean it.

Martha Beck

#12. Earth is the insane asylum of the universe.

Albert Einstein

#13. It has become much more difficult to smuggle dangerous substances across our borders over the past three years, and this is creating real problems for drug traffickers.

John Walters

#14. Democracy is still a radical idea in a world where we often confuse images with realities, words with actions.

Hillary Clinton

#15. It is not the facts which guide the conduct of men, but their opinions about facts; which may be entirely wrong. We can only make them right by discussion.

Norman Angell