Apparently if you’re enough of a power nerd, there is nothing that cannot be flowcharted. - Lev Grossman

The problem with growing up," Quentin said, "is that once you're grown up, people who aren't grown up aren't fun anymore.

But that was the thing about the old days: they were old. This was his life now. He was content, and if not happy then happier than he ever thought he’d be again. He had work to do….The past was what it was, his home was here, and anything else was a fantasy.

You know what women are like? They’re like those long, skinny blocks you get in Tetris, the ones made out of four blocks straight in a row. First when you need them you can’t get any, then when you don’t need them anymore they’re fucking everywhere and you don’t know what to do with them.