“One of the craziest things about The Great Gatsby is there's always some debaucherous party going on, and no one is ever having any fun. Like, everybody in that room just wants more money and more class, and they wanna, like, find a way to get a better life, except for Tom Buchanan, who has what the…”— John Green, youtube.comTagged: Stories, Contentment
“I don't know where people got the idea that characters in books are supposed to be likable. Books are not in the business of creating merely likable characters with whom you can have some simple identification. Books are in the business of creating great stories that make your brain go all like ahbd…”— John Green, youtube.comTagged: Reading, Stories, Books
“There will never be enough money and fame and love for us in this world, because every time we get what we thought we wanted, we realize that we want more. Because what we really want is to go back in time to some place when we felt safe, some time before we discovered violence and corruption, when…”— John Green, youtube.comTagged: humanity