I'm going to keep going until I succeed — or die. Don't think I don't know how this might end. I've known it for years.

Yeah, we’ll call you,” muttered Ron as the knight disappeared, “If we ever need someone mental.

Her round, mascara-streaked face looked back at him out of the rear window. He forced a grin and a wave before lighting another cigarette, and reflecting that Lucy's idea of sympathty compared unfavourably with some of the interrogation techniques they had used at Guantanamo.

The world is my oyster. I can do whatever I like.

I don't read 'chick lit,' fantasy or science fiction but I'll give any book a chance if it's lying there and I've got half an hour to kill.

Be ruthless about protecting writing days, i.e., do not cave in to endless requests to have "essential" and "long overdue" meetings on those days.

And that boys," yelled Mr. Weasley over the tumult of the crowd below,"is why you should never go for looks alone!