If you think it's hard getting in, you should try getting out.

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.

Show me a man that gets rich by being a politician, and I'll show you a crook.

I didn't go to film school. I got my education on the set as a niche publicist in the film industry.

New methods always look better than old ones. Neural nets are better than logistic regression, support vector machines are better than neural nets, etc.

When man has nothing but his will to assert--even his good-will--it is always bullying. Bolshevism is one sort of bullying, capitalism another: and liberty is a change of chains.

You needn't love your enemy, but if you refrain from telling lies about him, you are doing well enough.

These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.

Although it raine, throw not away thy watering pot.

More inhumanity (to man) has been done by man himself than any other of nature's causes.

Americans are hungry for change both at home and in our relations with the rest of the world.

I have realized sometimes I do better working under a crazy schedule. It gives me less time to overthink things and forces me to be present.