We live in an age when there is no room for the impossible.

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.

When God wins your heart, He has won it forever.

There reaches a time when it is betrayal for a woman to sleep with her husband.

Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.

Oh, where is the Fairy Godmother of explanations when you need her?

I was once invited to take part in a heroic, possibly fatal enterprise, but I declined, mainly on account of sloth.

All I really want is enough to live on, a little house in the country... and a tree in the garden with seven of my enemies hanging in it.

The idea of narcissism, essentially, is and will be accepted as a virtue.

I watch TV more than I used to, and the commercials don't impress me. The standard of execution is very high, but the standard of ideas is appalling.

Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass.

Show me a man or woman who cannot stand mysteries and I will show you a fool, a clever fool - perhaps - but a fool just the same.