Rich old people are more attractive than poor old people, so by all means, try to get rich before age sets in. Otherwise, you'll just be playing catch-up for the rest of your life and that will just w...

SNAPE: Did no one teach you to knock, boy?Scorpius looks up at Snape, slightly breathless, slightly unsure, slightly exultant.SCORPIUS: Severus Snape. This is an honor.

She could, she thinks, have entered a different life. She could have had a life as potent and dangerous as literature itself.

She walked about disdainfully, unwilling to be enthusiastic over monuments of uncertain authorship or date.

It's alright said a dreamy voice from beside Harry as Ron vanished into the coach's dark interior. You're not going mad or anything. I can see them too.Can you? said Harry desperately, turning to Luna...

I’m sorry. Were you just speaking to me? I apologize most profusely. I was distracted by the size of the sweat stains under your arms. Are you overly warm today? It seems unlikely given the cold, dead...

Like caterpillars our metamorphosis begins with what comes from our mouth. Caterpillars spin silk cocoons from the mouth. We speak life or death, success or failure. All transformation starts with wha...

Lois. Oh… no. Lois. Dinner. His name … be it Clark Kent or Superman …was mud. –Clark Kent

Making a million legally has always been difficult. Making a million illegally has always been a little easier. Keeping a million when you have made it is perhaps the most difficult of all.

Milton's Eve! Milton's Eve! ... Milton tried to see the first woman; but Cary, he saw her not ... I would beg to remind him that the first men of the earth were Titans, and that Eve was their mother:...

Most theists are deists most of the time, in practice if not in theory. They practice the absence of God instead of the presence of God.

My first language, the true language of the soul spoken only on our planet of origin, had no word for betrayal or traitor. Or even loyalty- because without the opposite, the concept had no meaning.

NEWT: What d’you think I should say to her, if I see her?JACOB: Oh, well, it’s best not to plan these things. You know, you just say whatever comes to you in the moment.A beat. They walk.NEWT (reminis...

Nico danced around like he needed to use the restroom. Does Zeus really have lightningbolts that do six hundred damage? Does he get extra movement points for—Nico, shut up! Bianca put her hands to her...

No books is more fascinating than the Bible. And no books are less fascinating than most of our commentaries on the Bible. Nothing is more formidable and unconquerable than the Church Militant. But no...

Only take someone's hand in a certain way, even look into their eyes in a certain way, and the world is changed forever.

Originally, the atoms of carbon from which we’re made were floating in the air, part of a carbon dioxide molecule. The only way to recruit these carbon atoms for the molecules necessary to support lif...

Percy was waiting for them. He looked mad.He stood at the edge of the glacier, leaning on the staff with the golden eagle, gazing down at the wreckage he'd caused: several hundred acres of newly open...

In the wake of the Longitude Act, the concept of discovering the longitude became a synonym for attempting the impossible.

Intrusive, thoughtless people! said K. as he turned back into the room. The supervisor may have agreed with him, at least K. thought that was what he saw from the corner of his eye. But it was just as...