Magic is wild, dangerous stuff. You never realize how useful limitations are until it's much too late.

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.

Art is a space in which freedom tests its wings.

Nowhere near the driver's seat, and I love this journey God's got me on!

Failure? Scared to death of it.

Hearing the missionary call has a great deal to do with what you are listening for.

I never thought of Green Day as a punk band. Just bubblegum, really.

Give your problems to Christ before your problems get to you.

Remember that thy heart will shed its pleasures as thine eye its tears, and both leave loathsome furrows.

The beautiful, passionate, ruined South, the land of magnolias and music, of roses and romance . . . living on the memory of crushing defeats

I grew up singing professionally since I was 7 years old and so to get to play a character who's living out their Rock star dreams as JEM was pretty much epic.