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.

Look at self-satisfied pop singers or greasy, semi-literate athletes. People worship them. Why?” "Because they’re talented.

What is this place? Hogwarts? -- Alex Rider

When are you at your most defenseless?

All that sadness. All that anger. It is the smoke that gets into your eyes. If you do not blow it away, how can you hope to see?

The worst time to feel alone is when you're in a crowd.

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