Dogs are in on our human silliness; lions are not.
Josh speculated about the hypothetical contents of an imaginary porn magazine for intelligent trees that would be entitled Enthouse.
For just one second, look at your life and see how perfect it is. 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. It's here, and you'd better decide to enjoy it or you're going to be miserable wherever you go, for the rest of your life, forever.
Fanfiction is what literature might look like if it were reinvented from scratch after a nuclear apocalypse by a band of brilliant pop-culture junkies trapped in a sealed bunker. They don't do it for money. That's not what it's about. The writers write it and put it up online just for the satisfaction. They're fans, but they're not silent, couchbound consumers of media. The culture talks to them, and they talk back to the culture in its own language.
You don’t learn about yourself by being alone, you learn about yourself from other people.
I have no doubt there are magician psychopaths, and magician serial killers. I doubt Brakebills admissions is very good at screening for those.
If there's a single lesson that life teaches us, it's that wishing doesn't make it so.
It is forgivable to say nothing out of ignorance; it's inexcusable to remain silent once awareness dawns.
I live below my means because it makes what I do seem less like a job and more like a passion.
We need ask more questions.
Only ambition is fired by the coincidences of success and easy accomplishment.