"If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals." — J. K. Rowling

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

Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.

I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen.

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.