I'm not so naive that I didn't know or didn't suspect that, at some point, someone was going to say "You're writing about the occult." My wizarding world is a world of imagination. I think it is a moral world.

The consequences of our actions are always so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed.

Every hour that passed added to her grief, because it bore her further away from the living man, and because it was a tiny foretaste of the eternity she would have to spend without him.

What's most important in a friendship? Tolerance and loyalty.

I was very low and I had to achieve something. Without the challenge, I would have gone stark raving mad.

Wow, we're identical!

Without cunning, there is no innovation. Without ambition, there is no accomplishment.