Joseph Mattson is a monster of a writer.

The world is so strange that maybe it’s perfectly logical.

And it's Gryfindor in possession again, as Johnson takes the Quaffle— Flint alongside her —poke him in the eye, Angelina —it was a joke, professor, it was a joke...

You're all incredibly thoughtful souls who keep my head attached to my body.

And what strange voices they have! Sometimes like the complaining of small children; sometimes like the noise of lambs.

Keep it simple: own as little as you can get away with, schedule everything, keep a notebook, don't let technology enslave you.

Being nonconfrontational allows people to feel like they can say anything they want.

Everything that is ponderous, vicious and pompously clumsy, all long-winded and wearying kinds of style, are developed in great variety among Germans.

To get Congress to do anything.

I had never worked in that environment where you're able to play.

You have to maintain a fine balance between hope and despair.

It is nonsense to speak of 'higher' and 'lower' pleasures. To a hungry man it is, rightly, more important that he eat than that he philosophize.