Do you promise to hate my parents as much as I do?" "Oh, absolutely," Quentin said. "Maybe even more.

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.

Here I am at these crossroads again, wondering what will never become of me.Now and then, I'll take one on the chin.Because I wear my heart upon my sleeve.

Here’s the solution. We need a CO2 tax, revenue-neutral, to replace taxation on employment, which was invented by Bismarck — and some things have changed since the 19th Century.

I love being one half of a romantic couple.

Telling the truth to people who misunderstand you is generally promoting a falsehood, isn't it?

True science is at length disencumbered of the empirical determinations which had accumulated in the course of many centuries.

British girls are as temperamental as Americans.

The poet's expression of joy conceals his despair at not having found the reality of joy.

I'm having too good of a time.

I am not an oligarch. I am a servant and I try to align my interests and those of my investors.

Look closer and you'll see something extraordinary, mystifying, something real and true. We have never been what we seemed.