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.

You don’t learn about yourself by being alone, you learn about yourself from other people.

If there's a single lesson that life teaches us, it's that wishing doesn't make it so.

You didn’t get the quest you wanted, you got the one you could do.

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

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.

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.

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

Your butt in a pew does not true worship make.

Dogs and children vomit in distress. Women cry.("Dial 'O' For Operator")

Lately I find myself staring at people’s faces... I find myself frantically searching through the crowds for one face. I don’t find that face

Gandhi said that whatever you do in life will be insignificant, but it's very important that you do it, because nobody else will.I tend to agree with the first part.

We never really had any kind of a Christmas. This is one part where my memory fails me completely.

Let's make math fun and sexy and glamorous. Smart is sexy, that's one of my main messages.

I don't think there was a particular book that made me want to write. They all did. I always wanted to write.

When a movie succeeds, it takes me to another world where I don't think about it and I'm just immersed.

To see the best before I have properly begun would be somewhat premature.

To me, rock music was never meant to be safe. I think there needs to be an element of intrigue, mystery, subversiveness. Your parents should hate it.