Nice' in a bodyguard is about as useful as the ability to regurgitate whole lobsters.

Just remember, what the French say. No, probably not the French, they've got a president or something. The Brits, maybe, or the Swedes. You know what I mean?" "No, Matthew. What do they say?" "The king is dead, that's what they say. The king is dead. Long live the king.

Whatever it takes to finish things, finish. You will learn more from a glorious failure than you ever will from something you never finished.

Entropy and optimism: the twin forces that make the world go around.

He had read books, newspapers and magazines. He knew that if you ran away you sometimes met bad people who did bad things to you; but he had also read fairy tales, so he knew that there were kind people out there, side by side with the monsters.

I lay on the bed and lost myself in stories. I liked that. Books were safer than other people anyways.

I'd love to think that people in the future would gather in theatres, at conventions, and in darkened rooms, and read it out to each other.