Anything else, Butler?" "The cosh, sir.

Well, I don't like the first bit and I don't know the last bit. So I'm really hoping the middle bit is exceptional.

I don't like lollipops.

A genius. A criminal mastermind. A millionaire. And he is only twelve years old.

Artemis felt like he was six again and caught hacking the school computers trying to make the test questions harder

There is no such thing as a happy ending. Every culture has a maxim that makes this point, while nowhere in the Universe is there a single gravestone that reads 'He Loved Everything About His Life, Especially the Dying Bit at the End'.

Is that how you're going to take me? Scare me into voluntarily coming aboard, then steal my Ice Cube?" "It's always cubes with you," noted Foaly, somewhat randomly. "What's wrong with a nice sphere?