As a writer I'm more drawn to villains who are just slightly mad.

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.

Words are never enough!

I realized that if what we call human nature can be changed then absolutely anything is possible. And from that moment my life changed.

It is said that Mr. Gladstone could persuade most people of most things and himself of anything.

Marriage is gonna be your stability through everything.

If you listen to really deep ambient records that don't move too much, very still records, long after those records are finished, you might find yourself listening for hours to the sound of the room.

In the end, the Labour party could cease to represent labour. Stranger historic ironies have happened than that.

I run with heart and determination, and that's what you can't measure-heart.

When we seek to complete rather than compete, it's so much easier to cheer each other on.

I think often that God is guiding me.

He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most. God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us.