I think to be writer you have to enjoy being alone. I was a loner as a teenager and was always drawn to characters in books and films who were at the fringes.

A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship.

… it was raining on Himmel Street when the world ended for Liesel Meminger. The sky was dripping. Like a tap that a child has tried its hardest to turn off but hasn’t quite managed.

Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day.

Like most misery, it started with apparent happiness.

Sometimes people are beautiful. Not in looks. Not in what they say. Just in what they are.

I have to say that although it broke my heart, I was, and still am, glad I was there.

Please, trust me, I most definitely can be cheerful. I can be amiable. Agreeable. Affable. And that's only the A's. Just don't ask me to be nice. Nice has nothing to do with me.

I guess that’s the beauty of books. When they finish they don’t really finish.

Sometimes I just survive. But sometimes I stand on the rooftop of my existence, arms stretched out, begging for more.

If only she could be so oblivious again, to feel such love without knowing it, mistaking it for laughter.

He was a stylist, not a thinker. He spent time trying to say things in as complicated a way as possible.

Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.

The best signing I ever made at Rangers was Walter Smith.

Tyrants are but the spawn of Ignorance, Begotten by the slaves they trample on.

Belief creates its own experience; therefore, such an experience is not true.

Real possession football, this. And Zico's lost it

We wanted to make something that sounded perfect because of the quality of the emotion...the honesty.

You will always move toward anyone who increases you and away from anyone who makes you less.

I consider what I write to be literature. I choose the words carefully.

...the best leaders are servant leaders - they serve those they lead.