The gods were great, but what good was greatness if you didn't love?

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.

To conquer oneself is the best and noblest victory

Then I’ll have more fun searching in vain then marrying one of the wrong sort.

How can you possibly reconcile the great inequities of gender – coupled with the perversions of age and the randomness of everything?

Ah! well away! Seasons flower and fade.

I never took pleasure in seeing a bull die. Relief, but certainly not pleasure.

Once people get hung up on theology, they've lost sanity forever.

A man of fine perceptions is more truly feminine than a merely sentimental woman.

From the waist down, Earl Campbell has the biggest legs I have ever seen on a running back.

I don't pare down much. I write the beginning of a story in a notebook and it comes out very close to what it will be in the end. There is not much deliberateness about it.

Easy to read, yet filled with wisdom that will penetrate your heart, this book puts the power back in your hands. It’s a must have.