“Ultimately, we all have to decide for ourselves what constitutes failure, but the world is quite eager to give you a set of criteria if you let it.”

First sign of madness, talking to your own head.

Hearing voices no one else can hear isn’t a good sign, even in the wizarding world.

When people are very damaged, they can often meet the world with a kind of defiance.

Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.

The internet has been a boon and a curse for teenagers.

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

Time is making fools of us again.

Killing is not so easy as the innocent believe.

Killing is not so easy as the innocent believe.

If you want to know what a man’s like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

Secretly we’re all a little more absurd than we make ourselves out to be.

I find that discussing an idea out loud is often the way to kill it stone dead.

It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.

I want to commit the murder I was imprisoned for.

If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book.

For me the criterion of a good photograph is that it is unforgettable.

Generally there are always a few things that get left off for some reason or other, although the criteria for inclusion vary from project to project.

The criterion for what is good is based on whether it relieves someone, brings joy, or soothes a distress.

Then, they had insisted that only empirical criteria matter and that they actually did not believe in the reality of sub-atomic entities.

The criterion of truth is that it works even if nobody is prepared to acknowledge it.

Political tags – such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth – are never basic criteria.

In the art world, creativity involves aesthetic sensibility, emotional resonance and a gift for expression.

So long as we use comfort and security as our criteria of success, we will fear our own intuitive guidance because by its very nature it directs us into new cycles of learning that are sometimes uncomfortable.