If this is what you do to the winner, I'd hate to see how you treat the runner up.

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.

The heart wasn't designed to decide it was designed to feel.

Each year, food companies use an amount of salt that is every bit as staggering as it sounds: 5 billion pounds.

As the saying goes, when you're a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

I love the responsibility of being a Victoria's Secret spokesmodel. It's a great life skill.

I'm going to do anything and everything, remove every boulder, every hurdle and every problem out of my way to make my dreams come true.

There does not exist a category of science to which one can give the name applied science. There are sciences and the applications of science, bound together as the fruit of the tree which bears it.

Jokes are grievances.

If you are moneyed or educated, you will get a different sentence than someone who is not.

When you read about the end of the Soviet Union, it's always about the "death of socialism." They never say "the death of democracy." But it makes about the same sense.

A creative life cannot be sustained by approval, any more than it can be destroyed by criticism.