Every time you find your attention captured by a poster, your awareness, and perhaps something more, has, if only for a moment, been appropriated without your consent.

It is a common enough mid-career urge: having taken care of life's immediate needs, some of us yearn to chase villains, right wrongs, fight on the side of the angels.

Be careful not to appear obsessively intellectual. When intelligence fills up, it overflows a parody.

Stay with me always, my sweet, my love . . . my Claire.

The life of every river sings its own song, but in most the song is long marred by the discords of misuse.

Someday a loving Hand will be laid upon our shoulder and this brief message will be given: "Come home.

If God had wanted you to wear earrings, he'd have made you a girl.

Learn to attack things frontally but according to the most scientific methods.

Forgetting: that is a divine capacity. And whoever aspires to the heights and wants to fly must cast off much that is heavy and make himself light--I call it a divine capacity for lightness.

We Slytherins are brave, yes, but not stupid. For instance, given the choice, we will always choose to save our own necks.

It was as though the darkness was a sheet of raw cookie dough and someone had just taken a cookie cutter and made a child-sized shape out of it.

Light has a way of keeping people honest.