reflection Quotes

We're a phenomenally snobby society, and it's such a rich seam. The middle class is so funny: it's the class I know best, and it's the class where you find the most pretension, so that's what makes the middle classes so funny.

The middle class is so funny, it's the class I know best, and it's the class where you find the most pretension, so that's what makes the middle classes so funny.

The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.

People ask me if there are going to be stories of Harry Potter as an adult. Frankly, if I wanted to, I could keep writing stories until Harry is a senior citizen, but I don't know how many people would actually want to read about a 65 year old Harry still at Hogwarts playing bingo with Ron and Hermione.

I pay a lot of tax, and I feel, one of the reasons I stay and pay why I'm not based in Monaco... I think my country helped me.

Of all the subjects on this planet, I think my parents would have been hard put to name one less useful than Greek mythology to securing the keys to an executive bathroom.

I think I've really exhausted the magical. It was a lot of fun, but I've put it behind me for the time being.

In fact, you couldn't give me anything to make me go back to being a teenager. Never. No, I hated it.

I don't think I am evangelical in my work.

Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap.