I think they thought it was very arrogant of me to write the end of my seven books series when I didn't have a publisher and no-one had heard of me

What's life without a little risk?

It is not our abilities that show what we truly are. It is our choices.

We've all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That's who we really are.

Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.

It is our choices... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already.

The world is full of wonderful things you haven't seen yet. Don't ever give up on the chance of seeing them.

There is an expiry date on blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction; the moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you.

Gryffindor, where dwell the brave at heart!

Twilight fell: The sky turned to a light, dusky purple littered with tiny silver stars.

The fear of God is the beginning of knowledge.

I love you not because I need you, but because you have created a place in my heart for you.

Success and failure are greatly overrated. But failure gives you a whole lot more to talk about.

Let us rejoice in the truth, wherever we find its lamp burning.

If you're eating or drinking something made from cow's milk, it's because a calf chained in a box somewhere isn't.

I like comedy but I guess I don't think [my art] is that funny, either. It's too dark and a bit weird in places to be genuinely, uniformly hilarious and function as comedy.

For extreme diseases, extreme methods of cure, as to restriction, are most suitable.

My mom and dad would take me all over. One night we'd be at the Apollo watching James Brown, and then I'd be at the Joffrey Ballet. It was that kind of scene.

Knowledge is the vaccination that keeps you away from the flu of misery