Don't take anyone's writing advice too seriously.

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.

It didn’t matter where you were, if you were in a room full of books you were at least halfway home.

Death is not the enemy living in constant fear of it is.

Safety is an illusion and perhaps it's better to challenge it sometimes, to see how far we can go, to learn about the stuff we are made of.

Promises to love without putting those words into action are just empty proposals. It's not tangible until it is actually seen. Love is action.

I am embarrassed to exist.

Fly fishing or any other sport fishing, is an end in itself and not a game or competition among fishermen. . . .

There is a prodigious selfishness in dreams: they live perfectly deaf and invulnerable amid the cries of the real world.

In the corporate community the key word is respect. In the corporate community you don't get a relationship until they respect you first.

The argument for intelligent design basically depends on saying, 'You haven't answered every question with evolution,'... Well, guess what? Science can't answer every question

I want to thank God because that's who I look up. He's graced my life with opportunities. He's shown me that it's a scientific fact that gratitude reciprocates.

When typhus or cholera breaks out, they tell us that Nobody is to blame. That terrible Nobody! How much he has to answer for. More mischief is done by Nobody than by all the world besides.