“Dumbledore knows pretty much everything anyway, but that Hermione has read it somewhere.”

“When you're unhappy, I guess everything in the world - reading, eating, sleeping - has something buried somewhere inside it that just makes you unhappier.”

“Zen pretty much comes down to three things -- everything changes; everything is connected; pay attention.”

“Hermione always yawned at the mention of Socialism, and refused even to read Antichrist. 'Don't talk to me about the lower classes,' she used to say. 'I hate them. They smell.”

“You spend so much time, so much effort, trying to hold yourself together.

And then everything falls apart anyway.”

“Imitation can acquire pretty much everything but the power which created the thing imitated.”

“Everything must belong somewhere.
I know that now, that's why I'm staying here.”

“I read anything that’s going to be interesting. But you don’t know what it is until you’ve read it. Somewhere in a book on the history of false teeth there’ll be the making of a novel.”

“When I originally started writing, I expected that probably very few people would read my poetry because in those days people didn’t read poetry much anyway.”

“Everything in life has a place, and when one thing moves, it must go somewhere else.”