I love writing different things.

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.

If your life is worth thinking about, it is worth writing about.

A lie that is half-truth is the darkest of all lies.

After you pay your E-ZPass bill, there is no reason for the government to keep records of your travel.

Out of nothing can come, and nothing can become nothing.

I always like it at a war. There is always the chance that you will get up the next morning and be killed and not have to write.

i never learned anything while i was talking.

What I have done is learn to love and learn to be loved. That didn't come easy.

Even when I was at CIA, I'd go to visit foreign leaders and I'd say, 'You know, I'm not a diplomat. I'm just an old CIA guy'... I said, 'If I wanted to be diplomatic, I'd have been a diplomat.'

...mementos of this world, in which the things worth being were so easily exchanged for the things worth having.

I remember thinking, That's what I need - and that hope was in Jesus Christ.