If there is a connection between Harry Potter and my new novel, it's my interest in characters.

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.

I thought I had everything until I found you.

Learning to focus on the big picture will help you keep things in a proper perspective.

Language is the tool of my trade -and I use them all - all the Englishes I grew up with

A sophisticated rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity.

Ladies and gentlemen.” He [Jabba] sighed. “Meet the kamikaze of computer invaders...the worm.

The wise learn from the experience of others, and the creative know how to make a crumb of experience go a long way.

There won't be one, single global market. But there will be global investors.

the vicious result of privilege is that the creature who receives it becomes incapacitated by it as by a disease.

We don't function well as human beings when we're in isolation.

If I had to cram all my tournament experience into one sentence, I would say, Don't give up and don't let up!