Oddly, the meanings of books are defined for me much more by their beginnings and middles than they are by their endings.

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.

Anybody have the right to defend himself by carrying a gun but nobody have the right to kill others because he is carrying a gun

Life is short, right? We both know that. Well, what if you're my chance?

Time vanquishes even the strongest of strongholds.

I, Charles W. Penrose, wrote the Manifesto with the assistance of Frank J. Cannon and John White... Wilford Woodruff signed it to beat the devil at his own game.

I'd like another child, and maybe if it doesn't work out, I'll adopt.

The increase in accidents is disappointing. But the decrease in total fatalities is a hopeful sign.

You know the one I want to do? I want to make Batgirl.

Can you see me? Can you hear me? Does anything I say mean anything to you?

To me, politics is a pile of tricks.

Money is power in American politics. It always has been.