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

Power was my weakness and my temptation.

Never try to understand the students. They hate it. They would much rather be tragically misunderstood, wallow in self-pity, stew in their own —” “That’s enough, Phineas,” said Dumbledore.

So why in the name of Merlin’s saggy left —” “Don’t talk to your mother like that.

Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love.

Power was my weakness and my temptation. And Miguel Sano is very tempting. But he is not weak. He is very, very strong.

The mistake ninety-nine percent of humanity made, as far as Fats could see, was being ashamed of what they were; lying about it, trying to be somebody else.