The shortstop is a perfectly conditioned athlete. You're running out on relays all the time. You're covering second base. On every pitch, you're moving.

Playing shortstop is 75 to 80 percent anticipation, knowing the hitter and the pitch being thrown.

Dumbledore watched her fly away, and as her silvery glow faded he turned back to Snape, and his eyes were full of tears."After all this time?""Always, " said Snape.

It was impossible to feel alone in a room full of favorite books. I had the sense that they knew me personally, that they'd read me cover to cover as I'd read them.

Leave no livid life in your days but vivid days in your life

She'd known me my whole life. It's hard to throw away history. It was like you were throwing a part of yourself.

A man can take only so much. Even a phony man like me.

When I'm older, I want to have my own workout clothes line, like leggings and cute jackets in bright and fun colors.

All of our miseries prove our greatness. They are the miseries of a dethroned monarch.

A comic script is basically a love letter from you to your artist.

Sometimes we feel we straddle two cultures; at other times, that we fall between two stools.

There is not a string attuned to mirth but has its chord of melancholy.