A novel with a bad middle is a bad book. A bad ending is something I've just gotten in the habit of forgiving.

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.

History has taught us that the idea of superpower is for a political maniac to design the art of control over other countries.

Her vision of the world under the water represented a beautiful stillness, a version of heaven. It was the lost city of Lena, her alternate universe, the life she yearned for but didn't get to have.

Bob Dylan started out as a folk rip- off but he quickly ran with complex influences and it ended up to be his own sound.

I love your sushi roll, hotter than wasabi. I race for your love, Shake-n-Bake, Ricky Bobby

Surpass the best to be the best

We know what war means, and we know what poverty means. We need to develop a better model for reaching out to the world than we have.

All my life I've been looking for diversity

Fortune may rob us of our wealth, not of our courage.

The creative industries tend to dismiss technology as just something to buy and not understand how hard it is and how creative it can be as well.

Being a martial artist for many years, it has become a bit of an obsession of mine to bring that part of my life to the screen.