An Engineer is no match for a Historian with his dander up!

The one thing worse than an enemy is a friend turned false.

Sometimes, on our way through the world, we meet someone who touches our heart in a way others don't.

You aren't a hero and I'm not beautiful and we probably won't live happily ever after " she said. "But we're alive and together and we're going to be all right.

he cut through the 21st Century Gallery, past the big plastic statues of Pluto and Mickey, animal headed gods of lost America

I used to be very fascinated by Victorian stuff, and my best known books, the Mortal Engines series, have a sort of retro, Victorian vibe, despite being set in the far future.

I still feel, as I did when I was six or seven, that books are simply the best way to experience a story.

Moving cities are a fairly hoary old sci-fi trope - I seem to recall they were always cropping up on Doctor Who when I was young, though I may be misremembering.

But boys will be boys, even the ones who are only girls dressed up: That's one of the rules of the world.

Godshawk looked surprised, the way that people generally do when you ask them philosophical questions in shrubberies in the middle of the night.

Is it...dead?" asked Tom, his voice all quivery with fright. "A town just ran over him," said Hester. "I shouldn't think he's very well.

An ignorant man who is regarded as knowledgeable by people who are more ignorant than him is still ignorant.

People are usually more interested in what is new, rather than what is better.

I'm so loud, as if I know what I'm on about, but deep inside, I'm so insecure.Just a little girl.

Good news doesn't necessarily have to be a positive thing. Bringing good news is imparting hope to one's fellow man.

Art is so subjective, and people can react however they want.

A man must cling to the belief that the incomprehensible is comprehensible; otherwise he would not try to fathom it.

It's almost two societies, the living and the dead, and you live with them both.

Why should we faint and fear to live alone,Since all alone, so Heaven has willed, we die?Nor even the tenderest heart, and next our own,Knows half the reasons why we smile and sigh.

Marcel Desailly was pretty hard when I played against him in a Milan derby.

Certainly Dracula did bring a hell of a lot of joy to a hell of a lot of women. And if this erotic quality hadn't come out we'd have been very disappointed.