Anyone could see we were related,

Does this mean Harry Potter really exists?

There are going to be [year 2000-related] disruptions, but not catastrophic outages. But public reaction could be worse than that,

There are going to be [year 2000-related] disruptions, but not catastrophic outages. But public reaction could be worse than that.

I don't think I've had a very interesting life, and I feel that is a great liberation. That gives me great freedom as a fiction writer. Nothing that happened holds any special tyranny over me.

Your memory is a monster; you forget - it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you - and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you!