Quotes from Anthony Horowitz

I'd rather kiss the horse....

Diana Cowper had enough equipment to cook a Michelin-starred meal for ten but probably went to bed with a boiled egg and two pieces of toast.

When she asked you for help or for money it would always be personal.

It tasted like all foreign spirits do after they've passed through Heathrow. Wrong.

Each book was a friend.

It's an interesting paradox. The more humane the critics, the more hurtful their opinions.

She's the only line of continuity running through the haphazardness of my life, even though there are times when I'm not even sure if I really know her.

I had expected to die on many occasions before now. You might even say that death has been a companion of mine, always walking two steps behind. Well, now he has caught up.

All I had, really, were vague feelings.

Harriet distorted everything. It was a sort of ownership. She made the entire world her own...

Alex took a sip. It wasn't Coke. It wasn't even Pepsi. He recognized the over-sweet, slightly cloying taste of supermarket cola and wished he'd asked for water.

You're a miserable bastard, Hawthorne. You always were and you still are. That business with Abbott. I shouldn't have had to take the rap for that. You screwed me over and I'm only doing this fucking job now because of you.

Shi bai kepu seck yi!

But I'm not going to play fucking University Challenge with you now or at any time. I've got a dead woman and somebody strangled her in her own front room and that's all that matters to me right at this moment.

She had no human side. For the next few minutes, she said nothing, sitting at my table like some sort of malevolent Buddha, unmoving and imperious, letting me sweat it out as I wondered what was going to happen next.

metrosexual for this folly? This was where he had died. I was reminded

They think, always, that they are cleverer than they really are, that they have the ability to defeat the police, the rule of law, the very essence of society in order to achieve their ends.

One fucking smoke and it cost me my job, my pension, my marriage, my whole fucking life.

Another false arrest coming so soon after the last one isn't going to look too good on your CV, is it!

My son is dead. My other son has been crippled. And she just gets a slap on the wrist. That can't be right.' A spokesperson for Brake, the road safety charity, said: 'Nobody should drive if they are not fully in control of their car.

And of course there are all sorts of tax advantages. It's a bonded warehouse. No VAT. And no capital gains tax either because you're talking about a wasting chattel.

You didn't hate her,' Joy said, quietly. 'Things weren't right between you, that's all. You were both living in the shadow of what had happened and you didn't realise how much it was hurting you.

I thought you'd have known that, you being a TV writer.

There aren't many people who can say they have shot the Devil.