'Harry Potter' gave me back self respect. Harry gave me a job to do that I loved more than anything else.

We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture.

If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.

For me, writing is a kind of coping mechanism.