[on J.K. Rowling and the 'Harry Potter' series]: "Ms Rowling's magic world
has no place for the numinous. It is written for people whose
imaginative lives are confined to TV cartoons and the exaggerated (more
exciting, not threatening) mirror-worlds of soaps, reality TV and
celebrity gossip.
On personal power: The true exercise of freedom is -- cannily and wisely and with grace -- to move inside what space confines -- and not seek to know what lies beyond and cannot be touched or tasted.
J K Rowling is a brilliant inventor of details of magic, but her world has its origin in a boarding school, a place to which I do not want to return.