Stop looking for the next secret door that is going to lead you to your real life. Stop waiting. This is it: there's nothing else.

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.

[Bobby Tom] finally understood Gracie's function in his life. She was God's joke on him.

Not knowing stuff - like how your story ends before you start writing - is the seed of a lot of writer’s block.

The movies that influenced me were movies that told their stories through pictures more than words.

Wait a minute, I'm a fan of yours; you can't be a fan of mine!

The reality of the writer's world is that you set yourself up for future disappointment with every success that you deliver because you end up raising your audience's expectations.

I don't want to jump the gun. I don't want to talk about that. There's a lot of dirty pool played at the election, meaning the election is rigged.

You will never experience the fullness of joy you were created to know until Jesus Christ has first place in every area.

I'm a change agent. And what we're beginning to see is a lot of the establish people, one more time, trying to stop me.

Our constitutional system is founded on democracy: the will of the people, not the unchecked rule of judges.

Fans will come if you have a good product.