You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.

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.

Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.

My Head of House said I lacked certain necessary qualities...like the ability to behave myself.

Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect.

You can't give a Dementor the old one-two!

One more lesson like that and I might just do a Weasley.

October extinguished itself in a rush of howling winds and driving rain and November arrived, cold as frozen iron, with hard frosts every morning and icy drafts that bit at exposed hands and faces.

Time is Galleons, little brother.

You're the one who is weak. You will never know love or friendship. And I feel sorry for you.

In the end, it mattered not that you could not close your mind. It was your heart that saved you.

College = A place where you spend a ton of money for a piece of paper that says you're qualified.

CRAYFISH, n. A small crustacean very much resembling the lobster, but less indigestible.

The factor most ignored in discussing interstellar flight is the kinetic energy that must be invested in the ship to make its tons of matter move at a substantial fraction of the speed of light.

Our emotions tell us what to value. They're like a little GPS system: Go that way. Don't go that way.

If anyone is crazy enough to want to kill a president of the United States, he can do it. All he must be prepared to do is give his life for the president's.

I was into playing American music, especially the blues.

Condemned to violence, arrested by pain. Inside the soul lies a man insane.

Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.

I've loved all of my time here.

Some of the best things that have happened in my stories have happened seemingly of their own accord. The writer becomes a listener, just writing things down as they come.