Inside every fat man, there's a thin man trying to get out.

…my life has been a remarkable one. Maybe one day someone will write a book about me . . .” "I’ve never much cared for horror stories.

If you think it's hard getting in, you should try getting out.

Alan Blunt got in touch with me and asked me to put you up here for the rest of the week, to pretend that you're my son. I have to say, you don't look anything like me." "I don't look anything like myself either," Alex said.

It's funny how things work out sometimes.

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.

In the old days, spies had done they'd done because they loved their country, because they believed in what they were doing. But he'd never been given a choice. Nowadays, spies weren't employed. They were used.