You don't need to be able to string a sentence together in a way that is elegant or even vaguely meaningful to produce a bestseller - as Dan Brown has demonstrated time and again.

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.

Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.

Is there a cookie at the end of this lecture? ... I got a cookie after all ... Dear god, the cookie was poisoned.

Then once you get people locked up, it's an incredibly inhuman system.

A novel is a book with a lot of pages.

I don't want to throw him nothing. Maybe he'll just get tired of waiting and leave.

You know, when I first started making online videos, there were a lot of filmmakers I befriended who were doing it too.

The struggles I'm facing, The chances I'm taking, Sometimes might knock me down, But no, I'm not breaking.

From that house there has come so much life that it ought never to die or fall into ruin... For me that house was a gateway to America.

As bees extract honey from thyme, the strongest and driest of herbs, so sensible men often get advantage and profit from the most awkward circumstances.

Worry is a waste of energy. It cant change the past. It cant control the future. It only makes today miserable