I mean, when you're tired of book reviews, you're tired of life.

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.

Success is in direct proportion to the level of consistency in the application of the daily disciplines and actions required.

Marriage is just like business, only a few succeed, many manage & the REST RESIGN.

Why would I want to win anything other than a beautiful game?

Every U.S. citizen owes allegiance to our nation. Some Americans consider that anything less than high treason is allegiance.

Don't let the opinions of others define who you are. Take them into consideration, make adjustments if necessary and then go be you!

Learning a new skill can change hundreds of millions of cortical connections.

Don't try to run your life through a single straw. Someone, some event, will cut it off.

It creeps up on you and becomes an obsession. It comes out of watching a million movies.

I'm looking forward to doing things more intuitively in the future, just going with whatever happens and not immediately categorizing it as potentially good or bad or original or whatever.

I can cook really well. I started cooking as a kid, so I can fend for myself in the kitchen and even do a little gourmet action.