He looked from the phone to the unconscious figure of the Salesman. "What did you do to him?" he asked. "He got the wrong number," Alex said.

Inside every fat man, there's a thin man trying to get out.

You can kiss me if you like," she said. Alex let go of her and turned away. "Thanks, Fiona," he said. "But frankly I'd prefer to kiss the horse.

I love the idea that magic and witchcraft and battles between supernatural creatures could be raging all around us but just out of our sight.

What happened?" he demanded. "I heard an explosion!" "Yeah.That was me. I set the boat alight." "What?" "I set fire to the boat." "But we're on the boat!" "I know.

Childhood, after all, is the first precious coin that poverty steals from a child.

Once you get into the world of dystopia, it's hard to avoid plagiarism, because other people have had such powerful visions.

You're never too young to die.

There's a dream world that we visit sometimes and that's how we found out who we are.

What is this place? Hogwarts? -- Alex Rider

Routine is the one thing the can get you killed. It tells the enemy where you're going and when you're going to be there.

What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful than the garment with which it is clothed?

The policies enacted during segregation are still being felt in Birmingham.

Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are of the nature rather of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.

The rich people are those who create wealth, and you have to treat them well so they continue to give wealth.

Deep in the sun-searched growths the dragonfly Hangs like a blue thread loosened from the sky.

Every relationship between two individuals or two groups will be characterized by the ratio of secrecy that is involved in it.

Your life is in your hands, to make of it what you choose.

The silence of the envious is too noisy.

It is a happy day when we come to know that with God's help, nothing is impossible for us.

We are divorced, North from South, because we have hated each other so. If we could only separate politely, and not have a horrid fight for divorce.