As adults feign disinterest in science - children can grab hold of it to distinguish themselves.
All of our affairs, since the union of crowns, have been managed by the advice of English ministers, and the principal offices of the kingdom filled with such men, as the court of England knew would be subservient to their designs.
Writing a children's book means you cannot spin out long narratives or have complex character development.
One of the reasons we survive as a band is that we are seen as a band of today. We don't want to be seen as a band that tours and plays old songs. We feel that we are making the best music of our careers.
Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all he can do.
There is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving.
If they exert it not for good, they will for evil; if they advance not knowledge, they will perpetuate ignorance.
No man can become a saint in his sleep.
Let us unite on the safe and sure ground of fact and experiment, and we can never err; yet better, we can never differ.
To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.
When we sit and watch a horror movie we know we're watching a horror picture and come to the story with a certain level of psychic defence.
I wouldn't let kids near half the stuff I've written so it is quite lovely to pass these little books out to children when they visit the house.
I got sick and tired of my lady wearing ugly underwear to bed, so I turned to the Internet.
I have been swamped with tremendous response. I am expecting a huge crowd.
I find it useful to remember, everyone lives by selling something.
Who among us but has had occasion to remark the ill-judged, however well-intentioned government of children by their teachers; and, yet more especially, by their parents?
Too many security officers live day to day. They just want to be treated with dignity.
We've had really good mainstream publicity for these books and both Wanted and Chosen were snapped up as movie deals before each series even ended so I'm honestly just pinching myself.
Being the first to do something like this also registers a lot of attention that the line might not have gotten if all four books had just appeared from one company.
Sales were stable, but they would have kept rising if we'd been out there every month and I think we'd be topping 200,000 by now.
Prices have stayed up because people in control of supply decided they could keep them up.
It's actually annoying when I hear people say the sequel will be late because we're in a completely different situation from the original.
Everyone lives by selling something, whatever be his right to it.
It's been the most creatively liberating thing I've ever done and so I'm bringing some of that mad enthusiasm to Marvel for the next couple of years as they let me loose on some Marvel Universe titles you'll be hearing about soon.
No man is useless who has a friend, and if we are loved we are indispensable.
I just pick up my stories as I amble along, little bits of this, little bits of that. It gets easier the longer you've been at it.
If you treat with courtesy your equal, who is privileged to resent an impertinence, how much more cautious should you be to your dependents, from whom you demand a respectful demeanor.
However, if I can expand this to Top Cow or Avatar I'm helping the sales, however small, on my Marvel books because I'm almost certain to pick up some new readers.
I'd love to do something else for Avatar after this.
These are pretty much the most critically-acclaimed books I've ever written and the sales have been literally twice what we were all expecting.
You don't have to know people personally for them to be role models. Some of my most important role models were historical or literary figures that I only read about - never actually met.