I'm incapable of hiding my feelings when I'm around someone I don't like.

I sell dreams, small comforts, sweet harmless temptations to bring down a multitude of saints crashing among the hazels and nougatines

...we do not simply get showered with Hollywood money because we happened to write a little story about wizards one day. It's not winning the lottery. It's a real job, which real people do, and they have the same real problems as other real people.

Somehow the anticipation of pain can be even more troubling, more a misery than the pain itself.

The process of giving is without limits.

Divination is a means of telling ourselves what we already know.

I let it go. It's like swimming against the current. It exhausts you. After a while, whoever you are, you just have to let go, and the river brings you home.