Being a hero, the man had observed, is largely a matter of knowing one’s cues.

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

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.

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.

Though the funny thing about never being asked for anything is that after a while you start to feel like maybe you don’t have anything worth giving.

Everybody wanted to be the hero of their own story. Nobody wanted to be comic relief.

Blue screen of death: she'd crashed his system. Oh, well. Boys were so unstable that way, full of buggy, self-contradictory code, pathetically unoptimized.

Earth or Fillory, did it even matter? What was the huge conundrum? Everywhere you looked there was so much richness, you could never exhaust it.

What makes you think what happened to you on Earth wasn't an adventure?

You’re saying the gods don’t have free will.” “The power to make mistakes, ” Penny said. “Only we have that. Mortals.

Living in a castle is objectively romantic.

If I thought that what I'm doing when I write is expressing myself, I'd junk the typewriter. Writing is a much more complicated activity that that.

All writers are waiting for replies. That’s what I’ve learned. Maybe all human beings are

While my body might say, "I'm small and vulnerable, " my hair warns, "DON'T MESS WITH ME.

My wife and I, we work together. And we wrote this book, "Dad Is Fat." And in the book, I was encouraged constantly by my editor to be more personal and talk about more personal experiences.

You will only find the happiness you seek when you drop your negative attitude towards life, embrace life and be happy.

Life consists not merely in existing, but in enjoying health.

The art world is now a slave of mass culture. We have a sound-bite culture and so we have sound-bite art. You look at it, you get it - it's as immediate and as superficial as that.

If the boxers are a little more colorful, talk a little like I did and just do half as much as I did for boxing, it will be all right.

I am never going to write about dogs again. You can write about Islam, you can write about sexuality, but no, not dogs.

Honesty needs no disguise nor ornament; be plain.