Unlike any other creature on this planet, humans can learn and understand, without having experienced. They can think themselves into other people's places. We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better.

It is my belief... that the truth is generally preferable to lies.

I'm a writer, and I will write what I want to write.

I don't think there's any harm at all in allowing a kid to fantasize. In fact, I think to stop people from fantasizing is a very destructive thing indeed.

Fred and George turned to each other and said together, “Wow — we’re identical!

His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.

I sometimes have a tendency to walk on the dark side.