We'd failed, maybe, but some mysteries aren't meant to be solved. John Green More Quotes by John Green More Quotes From John Green This is the Homosexuality Is An Abomination Club, right? John Green abomination homosexuality clubs Don't lie to anyone, but particularly don't lie to millennials. They just know. They can smell it. Be yourself: if you're old, be old. If you don't know anything about pop culture, don't pretend to know anything about pop culture. When you credit teenagers with intelligence and emotional sophistication, they respond intelligently and with emotional sophistication. John Green being-yourself teenager lying The internet is necessarily public. It can be filtered-public or censored-public, but it necessarily has to be open and available. John Green censored available internet I don't see a future where we're all taught by robots. The real life, physical experience of being in a classroom and having conversations with knowledgeable people is immeasurably valuable and irreplaceable. John Green robots real people The ideas of directing attention outward, trying to imagine other people complexly, trying not to see myself as the center of the universe - these concepts have become important to me, and I hope they're at work in my life on a minute-by-minute basis. John Green important people ideas The challenge is the same whether or not I'm collaborating: to empathize with your reader and to tell a story that will matter to him or her. But the mechanics of going about that challenge change when you're collaborating, because you have someone to help refine your thinking and expand your vision of what might happen. John Green vision challenges thinking If we restructure things to see that the hero's journey is a degree in astrophysics rather than a journey to star in a reality show, that's a better world. John Green stars journey hero I think people who are religious are more likely to want one around, but it's a very secular position. John Green religious people thinking I don't think ministering requires a religious context. The number one thing is that every parent is extremely worried about their kid. Of course, when a chaplain shows up, that can exacerbate this worry rather than calm it. John Green religious kids thinking One of the jobs of a writer is to add nuance and ambiguity to that straight line that people often draw to very specific kinds of heroism. Most of us don't get to be Snooki. For most of us heroism has to be in our everyday lives. John Green everyday jobs people Becoming a father made me much more interested in the parent character in my novels. I've never found parents that interesting. John Green character father interesting I think when you're 16, if you have good parents, they generally just fade in the background. I had great parents, and because they were great, I thought very little about them in high school. John Green parent school thinking The universe is biased toward consciousness because the universe wants to be noticed. It's a way into existential hope that doesn't have too much cliché wrapped around it. John Green too-much want way I think that it's a universal urge to have our pain not be felt alone and to have our joys not be felt alone. John Green pain joy thinking I think all true stories are hopeful stories. I don't think there's any room for nihilism. John Green hopeful nihilism thinking The miracle and hope of human consciousness is that we can still conceive of boundlessness. John Green consciousness miracle humans When we think of death, we often imagine it as happening in degrees: We think of a sick person becoming less and less alive until finally they are gone. John Green degrees sick thinking All the characters are made out of words. With reading, I understand that the people aren't real but the fact that they are made out of language and are made out of words is extremely powerful to me. It becomes transformative for me. Different people have different ways of trying to make stories using language. John Green powerful real reading Teenagers are extremely funny, and extremely clever and intellectually curious. But they're also willing to ask questions about the meaning of life without disguising them around irony, and ask questions about what are our responsibilities to other people without having to couch it in irony. John Green teenager responsibility clever The consequences of being un-cool feel so big that a lot of times you end of not finding ways to have open and honest conversations. John Green honest ends way
