A good first impression can work wonders

The consequences of our actions are always so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed.

What's most important in a friendship? Tolerance and loyalty.

Every writer must have a chip of ice in his heart.

It was so good to be held. If only their relationship could be distilled into simple, wordless gestures of comfort. Why had humans ever learned to talk?

The success of Harry Potter has given me lots of freedom. I can pay my bills, and I don't have to prove anything to anyone anymore.

Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.