How can you care about the image of a landscape, when you show by your deeds that you don't care for the landscape itself?

Book knowledge takes action based on reasons

You want to put people in neat categories, make them monsters or angels, but it almost never works that way. You work in the gray and frankly that kinda sucks. The extremes are so much easier.

Every great human achievement is preceeded by extended periods of dedicated, concentrated effort.

If one has belief, knowledge is lacking. If one has knowledge, belief is unnecessary.

My favorite place in the world is my dad's house in Montauk.

Manners are made up of trivialities of deportment which can be easily learned if one does not happen to know them.

Yes, it has made me happier. Finishing them has made me happier. Before I wrote the Potter books, I'd never finished a novel. I came close to finishing two.

I had a very moral upbringing, and spiritual in a sort of not very specific way.

The world is facing a historic turning point because the system of materialistic liberalism has come to a deadlock.

Each time there is a news story, sometimes that gives ideas to people who then turn into criminals.