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.

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

Your hair is much too long, Ronald, for a moment I thought you were Ginevra.

And anyway, it’s not as though I’ll never see Mum again, is it?

Bless my soul,” whispered the old bartender, “Harry Potter . . . what an honor.

I don't need a cloak to become invisible.

I'm opposed to fundamentalism in any form.