But if you are single the last thing you want is your best friend forming a functional relationship with somebody else.

It is horrid to smirk.

When someone loves you it's like having a blanket all round your heart.

It occurred to me that if Africa needed us, sometimes we needed Africa a great deal more.

I like you very much. Just as you are.

It is proved by surveys that happiness does not come from love, wealth, or power but the pursuit of attainable goals.

Sink into morbid, cynical reflection on how much romantic heartbreak is to do with ego and miffed pride rather than actual loss

One must not live one's life through men but must be complete on oneself as a woman of substance.

No one is thinking about you. They're thinking about themselves, just like you.

Tom has a theory that homosexuals and single women in their thirties have natural bonding: both being accustomed to disappointing their parents and being treated as freaks by society.

It's rather fun writing a female spy, because she has so much more kit. Bond never carried a hair dryer or a makeup bag. And he certainly didn't wear an uplift bra.

Inflation is determined by money supply growth.

Beauty is merciless. You do not look at it, it looks at you and does not forgive.

Achievers are Believers in Commitments and Dreams. But, the great achievers believe in their own and others' good CHARACTER too.

The only permanent rule in Calvinball is that you can never play it the same way twice! (Calvin)

There's been a progression in my sound.

Reincarnation is an apprehension of a movement and the movement occurs in time. Without time, there is no reincarnation. Reincarnation is a reflection of time in this world.

What is noise to the old order is harmony to the new.

To what shall the character of utility be ascribed, if not to that which is a source of pleasure?

An honest man, that is not quite sober, has nothing to fear.

Judge not a man by his clothes, but by his wife's clothes.