I feel very conscious of my influences. T.H. White is very important for me.

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.

Write. Write write write write WRITE. Write. Now.(This is an inspirational writing quote.)

Sir Humphrey looked like a sleepy old hippo -- and when he yawned in that big, big, hippopotamus way Charity couldn't help doing likewise.

My exclamation mark formed into a question markIt hunched over and second-guessed itselfMaybe life is not so well understoodMaybe life is confusing after all

You can map your life through your favorite movies, and no two people's maps will be the same.

Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.

What's bad about my biography? My father was a worker, my brothers, too, and I have always honestly served my country.

God does not lead all His servants by one road, nor in one way, nor at one time; for God is in all things; and that man is not serving God aright, who can only serve Him in his own self-chosen way.

I started out when I was about 12, playing drums. I started singing when I was about 15.

It's shocking to me that it's easier to buy a gun at Wal-Mart than it is to buy my record.

... suicide gets in the air sometimes. Like a cold germ.