"No story lives unless someone wants to listen."
- J.K. Rowling

"Nobody feels like an adult. It's the world's dirty secret." - Liberal Arts

“Words are—in my not-so-humble opinion—our most inexhaustible source of magic.”
- Albus Dumbledore, Deathly Hallows: Part 2

"You realize that some of the things that you are feeling as a person, they can be used for something, for something bigger than yourself..." - Ben Whishaw

"...she did something very, very hard, and she did it very, very well, thus pleasing hundreds of millions of children and adults very, very much. In an era of video game consoles, online multiplayer “environments,” and tinier-is-better [web-based entertainment], she got people to tote around her big, fat old-fashioned printed-on-paper books as if they were the hottest new entertainment devices on the planet."
- Mark Harris, on J.K. Rowling

“Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me. I see paintings or drawings in the poorest cottages, in the dirtiest corners. And my mind is driven towards these things with an irresistible momentum.”
- Vincent Van Gogh

"I want to be a part of this celebration of strangers." - Darren Criss