Being brave was easy when you would rather die than give up.

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.

Religion is a culture of faith science is a culture of doubt.

But I will never ask anyone from our village-from any village in Tlanth-to risk his or her life unless I'm willing to myself.

The artist doesn't see things as they are but as he is.

It’s not bad people I fear so much as good people. When a person is sure that he is good, he is nearly hopeless; he gets cruel- he believes in punishment.

It's easier to tell a lie, than to tell the truth. It's easier to kill a fly, than it is to turn it loose.

Get arrested. Destroy the property of those who torture animals. Liberate those animals interned in the hellholes our society tolerates.

If people disobey, don't ask what is wrong with them, ask what's wrong with their leaders.

Writing is an incredibly lonely job.

It is the small steps which bring you satisfaction at the end of the day.

Long before I had money, my passion for cars was there.