On the fifth day, which was a Sunday, it rained very hard. I like it when it rains hard. It sounds like white noise everywhere, which is like silence but not empty.

I like dogs. You always know what a dog is thinking. It has four moods. Happy, sad, cross and concentrating. Also, dogs are faithful and they do not tell lies because they cannot talk.

And this shows that sometimes people want to be stupid and they do not want to know the truth.

All the other children at my school are stupid. Except I'm not meant to call them stupid, even though this is what they are.

... why I like timetables, because they make sure I don't get lost in time.

I want my name to mean me.

I find people confusing.

Lots of things are mysteries. But that doesn't mean there isn't an answer to them. It's just that scientists haven't found the answer yet.

And I know I can do this because I went to London on my own, and because I solved the mystery…and I was brave and I wrote a book and that means I can do anything.

But I said that you could still want something that is very unlikely to happen.

I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them

He lay in his stony crypt like his own corpse, hardly breathing, his heart hardly beating - and yet lived as intensively and dissolutely as ever a rake had lived in the wide world outside.

Just when you think things can't get any naughtier... they do!

Be addicted to your dream such that it becomes too difficult to wean you from it just like the way drug addicts finds it difficult to stop taking drugs.

I think the women - Lauryn Hill, Mary J. Blige, Erykah Badu - are doing new conceptual things and using their voices to create new American music.

It's always fun when you're doing the CGI stuff, to actually get to work with someone who is real, who's there.

Until a teacher learns to use elements like time, space, materials, groupings, and so forth flexibly, it's incredibly difficult to teach students as they need to be taught.

There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated.

People think they need to be at a ski-inski-out resort, but the reality is it's not such a big deal to jump on a shuttle.

I was a much better writer than I was an athlete. My college coach told me flat out, he said, "Deford, you write basketball better than you play it."

wild flowers should be enjoyed unplucked where they grow.