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.

There are few things in the world that we don't know. Science has explained everything away.

You couldn't trust anyone or anything that belonged to the world of espionage.

I vividly remember being 14. That was the age when I started to get happy: I started being a writer and stopped being a loser.

For all men are equal at the moment of death and who are we to judge them when a much greater judge awaits?

Alternatively you can twist the cylinder round twice clockwise; that turns it into a hand grenade. Five-second fuse. I tested it on one of my assistants. Poor old Bennett... he should be out of hospital in a couple of months.

It is, of course, traditional in children's literature to get rid of the parents.