You cannot defeat your enemies until you know who they are.

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.

It is difficult to trust someone not raised to doctrine.

Success is the only possible outcome when one vows to never stop moving forward.

Calumniate calumniate there will always be something which sticks.

While truth is ultimately convergent, beauty is ultimately divergent. No one can and no one should tell anyone else what that person should consider beautiful.

I'm totally into the emotional aspect of things.

As long as I am this or that, I am not all things.

Enough of Art. It's Art that kills us. People no longer want to do painting: they make art.

Customers don't measure you on how hard you tried, they measure you on what you deliver.

I've written 90 percent of the songs in my career, on all my albums.