I didn't do it, ' he insisted.'Then why did you run?' Sabrina asked.'And send rabbits to eat us! I'm a seven-year-old girl, ' Daphne said. 'Do you know how important bunny rabbits are to me?

And who are you supposed to be? the King of snot-nosed delinquents?

..when the first rubber ball smacked her in the head and made her brains rattle in her skull, she knew that something about this dodgeball game was different

I didn't know how to say goodbye. Words were stupid. They said so little. Yet they opened up holes you could fall into and never climb out of again.

The old repeat themselves and the young have nothing to say. The boredom is mutual.

I'm always interested in what you can do with technology that people haven't thought of doing yet. I think that's sort of a characteristic of the way I've worked ever since I started.

I always expect people to behave much better than I do. When they actually behave worse, I am frankly incredulous.

I would totally lose myself in the music and be a gypsy. I would go wherever I wanted to in my head - wherever the music took me. My body followed.

There were several Battles between the Yorkists and the Lancastrians, in which the former (as they ought) usually won.

Without passion, men are not willing to pay any price or bear any burden to set the captives free.

I awoke one day to find myself famous.

My stepfather introduced me to The London Library when I was about 18; the clientele has definitely changed since then, but it is still a wonderful oasis in the middle of London.

If I faltered, there would be no arms to hold me and the world would be a cold and forbidding place.