To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

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.

I want to fall in love with something in the way I fell in love with the idea of Harry before I write anything else.

Always the tone of surpise.

I felt I had to solve everyone's problems.

Krystal’s slow passage up the school had resembled the passage of a goat through the body of a boa constrictor, being highly visible and uncomfortable for both parties concerned.