“I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?”

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”

“Libraries were full of ideas, perhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all weapons.”

“I believe that mankind's destiny lies in the stars. I believe that candy really did taste better when I was a kid, that it's aerodynamically impossible for a bumble bee to fly, that light is a wave and a particle, that there's a cat in a box somewhere who's alive and dead at the same time (although if they don't ever open the box to feed it it'll eventually just be two different kinds of dead), and that there are stars in the universe billions of years older than the universe itself.”

“Destroying things is much easier than making them.”

“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”

“All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust.”

“A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.”

“Those who believe in telekinesis, raise my hand.”

“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”

“We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.”

“Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very'; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.”

“Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.”

“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”

“It means "Shadowhunters: Looking Better in Black Than the Widows of Our Enemies Since 1234."”

“Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.”

“Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”

“And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you, because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.”

“I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”

“Now what state do you live in?”

“The impossible often has a kind of integrity to it which the merely improbable lacks.”

“The play was a great success, but the audience was a dismal failure.”

“Let's be reasonable and add an eighth day to the week that is devoted exclusively to reading.”

“I've been accused of vulgarity. I say that's bullshit.”

“To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan and not quite enough time.”

“An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.”

“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells.”

“Do you know what breakfast cereal is made of? It's made of all those little curly wooden shavings you find in pencil sharpeners!”

“He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.”

“I know that David Tennant's Hamlet isn't till July. And lots of people are going to be doing Dr Who in Hamlet jokes, so this is just me getting it out of the way early, to avoid the rush...”

“This book was written using 100% recycled words.”

“I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.”

“One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas I'll never know.”

“I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.”

“The human body is the best work of art.”

“I like a woman with a head on her shoulders. I hate necks.”

“Puns are the highest form of literature.”

“It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much, doing nothing, really doing nothing.”

“Humor is reason gone mad.”

“I have nothing to declare except my genius.”

“Black holes are where God divided by zero.”

“From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere!”

“In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.”

“If writers wrote as carelessly as some people talk, then adhasdh asdglaseuyt[bn[ pasdlgkhasdfasdf.”

“Some people have lives; some people have music.”

“Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!”

“Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.”

“I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.”

“Everyone should be able to do one card trick, tell two jokes, and recite three poems, in case they are ever trapped in an elevator.”

“Deadlines just aren't real to me until I'm staring one in the face.”