One thing I can say for sure is that she was very clever. Not in the way others expect you to be – intelligent, witty and concise, but in the way people should be: creative and consistent.

Never interrupt someone who is reading because they’re no longer in your world.

Theo, Baleigh, and Lucas were good-looking people, and good-looking people hardly ever went unnoticed.

Because you're a girl and when a girl says she's fine, she's lying.

Everybody starts the journey but not everybody completes it

Oh, I'm a dangerous criminal, I am,' said the dwarf cheerfully.

I realized that the only purpose to revolution is to be able to love who you want, how you want, when you want and where you want.

A game of secret, cunning stratagems, in which only the fools who are fated to lose reveal their true aims or motives - even to themselves.

There is no Art made without power, and there is no reason for Art to be made except for power.

There's a socialist bias to the consensus of the literary world: a '30s mentality that says factory workers are more worthy of our attention.

The epic poet collaborates with the spirit of his time in the composition of his work. That is, if he is successful; the time may refuse to work with him, but he may not refuse to work with his time.

I know one thing - if I didn't have TV and theatre and radio, the world would be a much more boring place.

High Air-castles are cunningly built of Words, the Words well bedded also in good Logic-mortar; wherein, however, no Knowledge will come to lodge.

It costs ten times more to govern us than it used to, and we are not governed one-tenth as good.