I don't take any responsibility for the lunatic fringes of my own religion.

I think I've really exhausted the magical. It was a lot of fun, but I've put it behind me for the time being.

I felt I had to solve everyone's problems.

All those poor elves I haven’t set free yet, having to stay over during Christmas because there aren’t enough hats!

Think your little jokes'll help you on your deathbed?" she jeered. "Jokes? No,no, these are manners," replied Dumbledore.

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might has well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.

Every now and then I read a poem that does touch something in me, but I never turn to poetry for solace or pleasure in the way that I throw myself into prose.