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.

There's a name for people with an interest in the moon," Alex said. "They're called lunatics.

I could feel the day offering itself to me, and I wanted nothing morethan to be in the moment-but which moment?Not that one, or that one, or that one,

With great diligent, pursue your dreams.

More than just someone to lay down with, is a spirit to pray up with.

I hate wasting people's time.

We are not on the way to greater individualism, but are becoming an increasingly manipulated mass civilization.

I'm not a quitter. I believe in following things through.

From the first time someone says, Who do you think you are? we learn how to repress.

The most shattering thought I've ever had is my personal accountability to God one day

Human life is a series of compromises, and it is not always easy to achieve in practice what one has found to be true in theory.

There is an immediate payoff to intelligent design: it destroys the atheistic legacy of Darwinian evolution. Intelligent design makes it impossible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist.