Many parts of my life are perfectly ordinary, if that's what you mean. One could even call it boring, but that's what I like about it.

The fridge had been emptied of all Dudley’s favorite things — fizzy drinks and cakes, chocolate bars and burgers — and filled instead with fruit and vegetables and the sorts of things that Uncle Vernon called “rabbit food.

Choose what to believe. He wanted the truth. Why was everybody so determined that he should not get it.

Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve. I was determined to try. I was determined to try because, frankly, my life was such a mess at this point, what - what was the worst that could happen? Everyone turn me down? Big deal.

Power was my weakness and my temptation.

Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.

I make mistakes like the next man. In fact, being--forgive me--rather cleverer than most men, my mistakes tend to be correspondingly huger.