I was a great believer in hot buttered toast at all hours of the day.

The short story is the art form that deals with the individual when there is no longer a society to absorb him, and when he is compelled to exist, as it were, by his own inner light.

No man is ever as anti-feminist as a really feminine woman.

I cant write about something I dont admire. It goes back to the old concept of the celebration: you celebrate the hero, an idea.

Even if there were only two men left in the world and both of them saints they wouldn't be happy. One them would be bound to try and improve the other. That is the nature of things.

I suppose we all have our little hiding-hole if the truth was known, but as small as it is, the whole world is in it, and bit by bit grows on us again till the day You find us out.

A man and woman in search of something are always blown apart, but it's the same wind that blows them.

a grin that wasn't natural, and that combined in a strange way affection and arrogance, the arrogance of the idealist who doesn't realize how easily he can be fooled.

The short story is the art form that deals with the individual when there is no longer a society to absorb him and when he is compelled to exist as it were by his own inner light.

No man is as anti-feminist as a really feminine woman.

Education is stimulates self discovery.

When we come near the light, all the darkness around us, shall disappears.

It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.

You pay more in wages, get more in in tax, you get people living a higher standard, you get more money. It's a kind of circle.

If Hillary Clinton had to face me on a debate stage, at the very least, she would have a hitch in her swing.

Sometimes I worked with just a background of a rock or a tree or black velvet, and just had to imagine the whole thing.

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

I have a great support team. I have very understanding parents that do not put too much pressure on me, and I have close friends that I lean on for support.

Women of color: if you're over 40 and you get fat, you will work. But if you're hot and over 40 and a woman of color, they don't know what to do with you.

In life there are certain sores which, like a kind of canker, slowly erode the soul in solitude.