My father was aloof, very strange and very distant.

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.

To be concentrated means to live fully in the present, in the here and now, and not to think of the next thing to be done, while I am doing something right now.

I shot through my twenties like a luminous thread through a dark needle, blazing toward my destination: Nowhere.

I was such a dangerous hitter I even got intentional walks during batting practice.

O maternal earth which rocks the fallen leaf to sleep!

All love will, one day, meet with its return. All true love will, one day, behold its own image in the eyes of the beloved, and be humbly glad.

Once I thought I found love, but then I realized I was just out of cigarettes.

When I'm acting, I'm in the director's hands. I'm very happy to be. I like to be focused on what I'm doing.

Oh, I was an ugly kid. My old man took me to the zoo. They thanked him for returning me.

My name may be Thom Yorke, but only I can call me Thom Yorke.

Mystical additions and subtractions always come out the way you want.