Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.

Once again, you show all the sensitivity of a blunt axe.

I think they ought to know. You do them a disservice by not confiding something this important to them.” “I didn’t want —” “— to worry or frighten them?” said Dumbledore, surveying Harry over the top of his half-moon spectacles. “Or perhaps, to confess that you yourself are worried and frightened? You need your friends, Harry. As you so rightly said, Sirius would not have wanted you to shut yourself away.

We did it, we bashed them wee Potter's the one, and Voldy's gone moldy, so now let's have fun!

You have to resign yourself to the fact that you waste a lot of trees before you write anything you really like, and that's just the way it is. It's like learning an instrument, you've got to be prepared for hitting wrong notes occasionally, or quite a lot, cause I wrote an awful lot before I wrote anything I was really happy with. And read a lot. Reading really helps. Read anything you can get your hands on.

Books can be misleading...

Sounded like a load of waffle to me." "There was some important stuff hidden in the waffle.