The real world is horrible.

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.

The mind becomes much more beautiful, when man could see his own weaknesses.

Life is a moving, breathing thing. We have to be willing to constantly evolve. Perfection is constant transformation.

This is a time in my life where I'm gonna behave like an elegant human being. Or not.

You can take anything, and if you explore it right, you can make it funny.

If you think of 'Liberty Valance' or 'The Searchers,' there are moments in there that you'll never, ever forget... And it does not matter what century you are from.

The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life

As a boy, because I was born and raised in Ohio, about 60 miles north of Dayton, the legends of the Wrights have been in my memories as long as I can remember.

Curses are children of hate; they belong to the wrong family! Prayers are better than curses!

We just fight our way through it. But you can't just get up and walk out without repeating the behavior over and over.

Tis in my memory lock'd, And you yourself shall keep the key of it.