It has been the dream of very few men to rule the entire world. - Dr. Grief

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.

Lightness can be found after the dark

She reeked of respectability and sophistication, and he went hard on a helpless surge of lust.

Life has ill-prepared me for finding any enjoyment in a press of merrymakers.

The evil that men do lives after them The good is oft interred with their bones.

The ability of discerning high quality unavoidably implies the ability of identifying shortcomings.

Bruce Lee, before he fought, he would try to visualize how the fight would go, because he was visualizing a victorious path out of the combat.

It was the winter wild, While the Heaven-born child, All meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies.

The circumstances of our lives actually matter less to our happiness than the sense of control we feel over our lives.

The schedule is really crazy and the fans are sometimes kind of crazy, but other than that it's been - it's been cool.

The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against disbelief