Dignity was the first quality to be abandoned when the heart took over the running of human affairs.

We never love anyone. Not really. We only love our idea of another person. It is some conception of our own that we love. We love ourselves, in fact.

The last thing you know about yourself is your effect.

I don't think they'll ever make a retro Bond.

There are things in life we don't understand, and when we meet them, all we can do is let them alone.

I have teken refuge in the doctrine that advises one not to seek tranquility in certainty but in permanently suspended judgement.

We keep a journal to entrap that collection of selves that forms us, the individual human being.

I have to start my real life soon, before I die of boredom and frustration.

Film is a medium of clear lines and broad strikes - which can be fantastic - but compared to the subtleties and nuances of a novel, it doesn't even get close.

I let people off the hook too easily.

There is a disconnect between the film Bond and the literary Bond which is their contemporaneity. I don't suffer from that.

(Referring to the piano's natural shape) Isn't it a shame when those big fat opera singers lean against the pianos and bend them?

If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved the Inquisition might have let him alone.

I'm bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is 'In 15 minutes everybody will be famous.'

You know, I loved math. My mom was a math teacher.

It was interesting to think that the very first liquid ever poured on the Moon, and the first food eaten there, were communion elements.

If the same phrase in the same place created the right effect, I was perfectly prepared to use it every time. I wasn't worried that I wasn't improvising.

Christian hope does not promise successful days to the rich and the strong, but resurrection and life to those who must exist in the shadows of death. Success is no name of God. Righteousness is.

Peace is a certificate you get in the grave.

One man pins me to the wall, while with another I walk among the stars

Remember that a noble logical diagram, once recorded, will never die; long after we are gone, it will be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistency.