Genuinely social people never ceased to amaze him. Their brains seemed to generate an inexhaustible fund of things to say, naturally, with no effort, out of nothing at all.

I have no doubt there are magician psychopaths, and magician serial killers. I doubt Brakebills admissions is very good at screening for those.

We have lived too long. The great days are past.

I got my heart's desire, and there my troubles began.

It turns out that there is something that can compete with free: easy.

My ultimate goal is to drive people back to the books, when I think of an adaptation.

I studied the cello for a long time, from when I was little up through college.