It's a grand thing to be able to take your money in your hand and to think no more of it when it slips away from you than you would a trout that would slip back into the stream.

Panic---a deep abiding, free-floating anxiety, often without any reason or logical basis.

...as the old saying goes: if you teach a man to fish, he will feed himself for a lifetime. But if you just give him a fishing pole, he’ll have to teach himself.

The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead.

It is amazing what people feel they have the right to tell you to your face when you're famous.

I would rather stand alone in the light of truth than in the crowd filled with error.

Your parents were always trying to get you to be careful when you were a kid, and that's all pervasive in this society.

I remember when people actually wore coats and ties to theatre every night. They don't anymore. It's very different.

I used to be very fascinated by Victorian stuff, and my best known books, the Mortal Engines series, have a sort of retro, Victorian vibe, despite being set in the far future.

The ancient Greeks, as Plato reports, believed that we discover truth through "reminiscence," that is by "remembering," by intuitively searching into our own experience.

Do not say, ‘You are bad’; say only, ‘You are good’, but be better!