I have spent many, many hours reading J.K. Rowling's work. I am a known 'Harry Potter' fan.

In our world no one ever knows what to do, and everyone's just as clueless and full of crap as everyone else, and you have to figure it all out by yourself. And even after you've figured it out and done it, you'll never know whether you were right or wrong. You'll never know if you put the ring in the right volcano, or if things might have gone better if you hadn't.

I think for a long time, I was paralyzed by some of my hopes and ideals for what my life was going to be like. I had this perfect vision of how my life should go, but it seemed - it was - impossible to realize, so I sat around for a long, long time doing almost nothing at all.

I guess I was raised in a household with a lot of reverence for the physical sanctity of books. You didn't destroy books.

The real world is horrible.

It's natural for a child to assume that his or her own childhood is unremarkable.

Stop looking for the next secret door that is going to lead you to your real life. Stop waiting. This is it: there's nothing else.