Let me ask you a question Alex. What do you think is the greatest evil on this plant today?" "Is that including, or not including you?

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.

I've realized I don't need to keep looking for my path. I'm already on it. I just need to trust where it leads.

Palaeontology is the Aladdin's lamp of the most deserted and lifeless regions of the earth

You are not showing her my baby pictures!” He sounded horrified, which made me laugh. “Come on, Evan, ” I teased with a laughing smile, “you were adorable.

I have always felt that I am the sum total of my parts.

I want to do transformational work to actually fix the world.

I think Dalai Lama is always careful about stressing that people be led into the practice by somebody who knows what's going on.

Government is, and always has been, the greatest criminal threat to the peaceful members of society.

And I have written three books on the soul, Proving absurd all written hitherto, And putting us to ignorance again.

Formula for success: Underpromise and overachieve.

If the psychic energies of the average mass of people watching a football game or a musical comedy could be diverted into the rational channels of a freedom movement, they would be invincible.