There are much more terrible things than physical injury.

You've got to appreciate what the worst is. You don't want to find yourself in a situation where you're facing it.

You can have a very intense relationship with fictional characters because they are in your own head.

Some of the furor that surrounded a Harry Potter publication was fun.

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

He was slumped in the back, gazing out of the window, as though his parents were two people who had picked him up hitchhiking, connected to him merely by chance and proximity.

It’s your one last chance,” said Harry, “it’s all you’ve got left. . . .I’ve seen what you’ll be otherwise. . . . Be a man . . . try . . . Try for some remorse. . . .