We have reached the point where ignorance and neglect are the best we can hope for in a ruler.

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.

Wake up people, you are sleeping your life away!

A natural disaster in one American city is a natural disaster in every American city, including Fresno and, for that matter, every city and small town in the San Joaquin Valley.

As a kid, I would've loved to get a tweet from David Bowie or Joan Rivers or Tom Cruise. It's great that you can communicate with people and it's instant.

If it reenters its base, I have a rule to cut at least 50 percent of the position.

It's the pleasure of picking up the brush and seeing what happens.

To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.

I can't believe there are so many people who aren't us.

You have to pay attention to details to have success in the playoffs. You can't take anyone lightly.

I think Israel should be treated as an independent nation and not a puppet of our state.

The world may be divided into people that read, people that write, people that think, and fox-hunters.