I only want power so I can get books.

Many have stood their ground and faced the darkness when it comes for them. Fewer come for the darkness and force it to face them.

To worship a sacred mystery was just to worship your own ignorance.

I'm lazy! I hate work! Hate hard work in all its forms! Clever shortcuts, that's all I'm about!

Every mystery ever solved had been a puzzle from the dawn of the human species right up until someone solved it.

What people really believe doesn't feel like a BELIEF, it feels like the way the world IS.

I don't want to rule the universe. I just think it could be more sensibly organised.

Okay, so either (a) I just teleported somewhere else entirely (b) they can fold space like no one's business or (c) they are simply ignoring all the rules.

World domination is such an ugly phrase. I prefer to call it world optimisation.

But it is cute. It's such a boy thing to do.Drop dead.Aw, you say the most romantic things.

For an instant Harry imagined... Just for an instant, before his imagination blew a fuse and called an emergency shut down and told him never to imagine that again.

‪You would not be able to manage millions of dollars well when you are not managing thousands of dollars ‬well

And because she did not shove this down my throat, this dawned on me.

When you idolise someone, or you hold someone in such high regard, you just want them to be everything that you think there are - and when they are it's just lovely.

Moral truth, resting entirely upon the ascertained consequences of actions, supposes a process of observation and reasoning.

You have to win and especially, as I have, you have to win a trophy for the first time.

Impossible situations are our specialty.

Humble because of knowledge; mighty by sacrifice.

A nation of shopkeepers are very seldom so disinterested.

It appears to me that men are trying to speak for God instead of letting God speak for himself.

If you can't understand the blues, you don't know much