Eoin Colfer Quotes

He who wars, walks in a mist, through which the keenest eyes cannot always discern the right path.

You don't think I'm crazy?" I asked hesitantly. "Like I'm one to judge another persons sanity.

That shot might not have been as good as it might have been.

To remove or not to remove? That is the question.

Yes there are times when you regret your decisions but we all have to make them without the power of hindsight.

There is time not only to see who has done what, but to speculate why.

Sometimes I aint so sho who's got ere a right to say when a man is crazy and when he aint. Sometimes I think it aint none of us pure crazy and aint none of us pure sane until the balance of us talks him that-a-way. It's like it aint so much what a fellow does, but it's the way the majority of folks is looking at him when he does it.

-I am not sure whether he's sane. -If there's any doubt about the matter, he is.

I thought you were sane," I said, "but you're just as crazy as the rest of them.

Of persons I will say this: it is difficult to tell when they are running aright but easy to see when something has gone awry.

She smiled darkly and shook her head. 'I'm not crazy. I'm not. Of course what else would a crazy person claim? That's the Kafkaesque genius of it all. If you're not crazy but people have told the world you are, then all your protests to the contrary just underscore their point. Do you see what I'm saying?

You can go wrong by being too skeptical as readily as by being too trusting.

You’re crazy,” said her best friend, Angela, as the bell rang to signal five minutes before the first class on the first day back at school. “They said that about all the great visionaries.” “You know who else they said it about?” Angela demanded. “All the actual crazy people.

Even the people who have it do not definitely know what genius is.

I quite agree with Dr. Nordau's assertion that all men of genius are insane, but Dr. Nordau forgets that all sane people are idiots.

I don't know where the characters are going to go or what's going to happen. I know that something inevitable will happen. I know that they want certain things and they're in a certain room and they smell like this and they look like that. More often than not, an entropy creeps in that strangles me, and then the inevitable happens. I don't know if I have the ability to write an ending like My Fair Lady's, when everyone gets what they want after a few minor conflicts. If I tried to write that it would just be false. Or I'd have someone enter with a machine gun.

Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence.

The idea that you will make the right decision every time is very unlikely.

I can't believe you just did that! Are you crazy?" I gripped the steering wheel tighter. "Why do people keep asking me that?" He turned to stare at me, his eyes worried. "Who else keeps asking you that? Are any of them doctors?

There is always something moving, brewing. There are ambitious people everywhere. Wicked people. The only thing to do is to deal with them with courage and decision. One must beware of uncertainty, weakness or conflicting emotions - they lead to defeat

It may have been a comedy, or it may have been a tragedy. It cost one man his reason, it cost me a blood-letting, and it cost yet another man the penalties of the law. Yet there was certainly an element of comedy. Well, you shall judge for yourselves.

Whenever I don’t know whether to fight or not, I fight.

From the self-confidence with which he spoke no one could tell whether what he said was very clever or very stupid.

People are going to do stupid things, but you don't take away the freedom because somebody makes a stupid decision.

Even a genius has his questions.