It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.
I was as scared as I'd ever been. There was screaming everywhere now, and more bodies on the floor, and the press from behind was as relentless as a bulldozer. It was all I could do to keep on my feet.
The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.
The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is 'look under foot.' You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic."