Lev Quotes

He who completes a quest does not merely find something. He becomes something.

It is not man who pursues truth, but truth man.

Heretics were most often bitterly persecuted for the their least deviation from accepted belief. It was precisely their obstinacy about trifles that irritated the righteous to madness.

Fusion will be ready when society needs it.

A sensation, hidden in the depths of my emotional memory, was suddenly revived: what if... What if for me The Variation is not dead? If The Variation is alive?!

There can be no doubt that our descendants will learn to exploit the energy of fusion for peaceful purposes even before its use becomes necessary for the preservation of human civilization.

The danger would be going back, or staying still. The only way out was through. The past was ruins, but the present was still in play.

I have no doubt there are magician psychopaths, and magician serial killers. I doubt Brakebills admissions is very good at screening for those.

In those years, it was easier to win the Soviet Championship than a game against 'Iron Tigran'.

A lot of people feel that there is less artistry involved in cartoon making unless they have painstaking control of each frame.

... an artist is a person first. He is an individual. If there is no person, there is no artist.

That was the thing about the world: it wasn't that things were harder than you thought they were going to be, it was that they were hard in ways that you didn't expect.

It's time to live with what we have and mourn what we lost.

By now he had learned enough to know that when he was getting annoyed at somebody else, it was usually because there was something that he himself should be doing, and he wasn't doing it.

Science is a way to pursue one's sense of inquiry at the expense of the State.

Don't take anyone's writing advice too seriously.

It didn’t matter where you were, if you were in a room full of books you were at least halfway home.

Stop looking for the next secret door that is going to lead you to your real life. Stop waiting. This is it: there's nothing else.

The process of learning is a nonstop orgy of wonderment.

You're all so obsessed with other worlds, you're so convinced that this one is crap and everywhere else is great, but you've never bothered to figure out what's going on here!

A magician is strong because he feels the pain between what the world is and what he would make of it.

Escapism has value, even if I don't know what its value is, exactly. Maybe it's just part of some healthy way that we deal with the world.

In days gone by, a man's word was his bond. Today, fortunately, we have glue.

We having nothing to fear but fear itself. That, and maybe getting mugged by someone wearing a "No Fear" t-shirt.

Personal power means being secure and confident inside yourself.

There is really no end to life's little humiliations.

I got my heart's desire, and there my troubles began.

The truth doesn't always make a good story, does it?

It was so much easier to be angry. Being angry made him feel strong, even though-- and this contradiction did nothing to diminish his anger-- he was angry only because his position was so weak.

Art is a person's private vision expressed in aesthetic forms.

We're wired to expect the world to be brighter and more meaningful and more obviously interesting than it actually is. And when we realize that it isn't, we start looking around for the real world.

Being a hero, the man had observed, is largely a matter of knowing one’s cues.

Though the funny thing about never being asked for anything is that after a while you start to feel like maybe you don’t have anything worth giving.

Everybody wanted to be the hero of their own story. Nobody wanted to be comic relief.

Becoming an author changes your attitude too. Once you see where books come from, and how they're made, they never seem quite as sacred again.

Will screw them hard, fast, and in an elegant manner.

We can have peace, but if we continue to hold out, we can obtain more.

A man talking fast has something to hide.

The novel is a highly corrupt medium, after all - in the end the vast majority of them simply aren't that great, and are destined to be forgotten.

I have spent many, many hours reading J.K. Rowling's work. I am a known 'Harry Potter' fan.

Maybe this was one of those times when being a hero didn’t involve looking particularly brave. It was just doing what you should.

About as close you can get to the perfect cerebral thriller: searingly smart, ridiculously funny, and fast as hell... I defy anybody to read the first page and not keep going to the last.

His whole personality was like an elaborate joke that he never stopped telling.

Do you promise to hate my parents as much as I do?" "Oh, absolutely," Quentin said. "Maybe even more.

You're saying the gods don't have free will." "The power to make mistakes," Penny said. "Only we have that. Mortals

There's a special gut-check moment the first time you write a scene in which somebody casts a spell.

She tortured everybody around her, but only because she was more tortured than anyone.

Careful what you hunt, lest you catch it.

I never thought about doing a sequel when I was actually writing 'The Magicians.' I only ever considered it a standalone.

We have lived too long. The great days are past.