Some people do not seem to grasp that I still have to sit down in peace and write the books, apparently believing that they pop up like mushrooms without my connivance.

What's life without a little risk?

It is not our abilities that show what we truly are. It is our choices.

We've all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That's who we really are.

Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.

It is our choices... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already.

The world is full of wonderful things you haven't seen yet. Don't ever give up on the chance of seeing them.

There is an expiry date on blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction; the moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you.

Gryffindor, where dwell the brave at heart!

Twilight fell: The sky turned to a light, dusky purple littered with tiny silver stars.

It has long been my motto that if you cannot get your act together... then the very least you can do is try to make your act entertaining.

I am the one thing in life I can control. I am inimitable

I met a lot of famous people when I was about 24. And none of them seemed very appealing. And so I didn't know why I would struggle to be that kind of person.

I find a lot of poetry to be narcissistic.

Standards are always out of date. That's what makes them standards.

The illustration which solves one difficulty by raising another, settles nothing. [Lat., Nil agit exemplum, litem quod lite resolvit.]

And when I was in the trunk, I saw Jesus. And the Virgin Mary. And Ozzy Osbourne.

There is nothing so great as the Eucharist. If God had something more precious, He would have given it to us.

When you're in the middle of a pennant race, you can't go up there thinking about home runs.

To begin with, let us take the following motto...Literature is Love. Now we can continue.