We're wired to expect the world to be brighter and more meaningful and more obviously interesting than it actually is. And when we realize that it isn't, we start looking around for the real world. - Lev Grossman
You don’t learn about yourself by being alone, you learn about yourself from other people. - Lev Grossman
If my generation is remembered for anything, it will be as the last one that remembers the world before the Internet. - Lev Grossman
Personally, I think the "Potter" books have too many adverbs and not enough sex. - Lev Grossman
I call the right axe Sorrow," she said. "You know what I call the left one?" "Happiness?" "Sorrow. I can't tell them apart. - Lev Grossman
I killed the Google Alert I used to have on myself two years ago. I don’t need any more information about myself. I get more than enough of that just by being me. - Lev Grossman
Young minds - young brains - need stories and ideas like the ones in those [censored and banned] books in order to grow. They need ideas that you disagree with. They need ideas that I disagree with. Or they'll never be able to figure out what ideas they believe in. - Lev Grossman