I'm sophisticated, charming, suave, and debonair, Professor. But I have never claimed to be civilized.

We're not retreating, we're advancing in reverse.' --Skulduggery Pleasant

Doors are for people with no imagination.

I love you all, even those I don’t particularly like. That’s you, Beryl.

Kindness suits you." "Really? I think I'm quite allergic to it.

The Baron, unfortunately, turns it all the way up to eleven." "Seriously? Because, you know, that's one more evil

Well, for future reference, this is my serious face.

Plans are invitation to disappointment.

I'm placing you under arrest for murder, conspiracy to commit murder and, I don't know, possibly littering.

Are you sulking?” “Me? No. I don’t sulk.” “You sound like you’re sulking.” “I’m just waiting for the violent urges to subside.

Every solution to every problem is simple. It's the distance between the two where the mystery lies.

You can’t control other people’s behavior

Learning is as much an attitude as it is an activity.

We stand strong, or we cower. We emerge victorious, tempered by our trials, or fractured by a permanent, damming fault line.

Someone asked me, 'How do you write a book?' I said, 'I live with a pen in one hand.

It serves notice that President Bush is serious about promoting freedom, because free societies are a lot more peaceable than dictatorships and monarchies.

Hope is delicate suffering.

We have three things in common: Irish wives, the ability to speak for 17 minutes without a verb, and the fact that we both speak with an accent.

I know that if there’s a purpose for life, it was for me to hear Mozart.

Up until the War of the Roses there had been continual conflict in England.

My beauty simply shines forth like the sun!