Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

I had to be an adult, be a father without a son, so for one last moment I needed to be a son who needed his mother.

Oh, very good, ' interrupted Snape, his lip curling. 'Yes, it is easy to see that nearly six years of magical education have not been wasted on you, Potter. 'Ghosts are transparent.

Love is like a faucet, it turns off and on.

...the great lesson is that the sacred is in the ordinary, that it is to be found in one's daily life, in one's neighbors, friends, and family, in one's backyard.

[Believers] have joy and comfort-that joy that angels cannot give, and devils cannot take.

The world is equally shocked at hearing Christianity criticized and seeing it practiced.

True country music is honesty, sincerity, and real life to the hilt.

My one remaining professional ambition is to read the shipping forecast. I live in hope.

A census taker tried to quantify me once. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a big Amarone. Go back to school, little Starling.

The only guaranteed way to make something not very funny is to make it vague.