Each dark conjecture came and for a moment settled like a vulture on Bond's shoulder and croaked into his ear that he had been a blind fool.

He shrugged his shoulders to shift the pain of failure---the pain that is so much greater than the pleasure of success.

And people with obsessions, reflected Bond, were blind to danger.

His headache was still sitting over his right eye as if it had been nailed there.

In angry protest the red telephone splintered the silence.

They want us dead, ' said Bond calmly. 'So we have to stay alive.

Champagne and Benzedrine! Never again.

The only thing standing between you and your goal is the bullshit story you keep telling yourself as to why you can't achieve it.

Many a fervid man writes books as cold and flat as graveyard stones.

If it wasn't for baseball, I'd be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.

Nothing happens randomly.

If you're over 60, arms are not pretty, so I think you should stay covered up. But wear what's appropriate for what you're doing, how you live, and what your lifestyle is.

For me, making films is like being on vacation, it's a nice walk. But theatre is like mountaineering. You never know whether you're going to fall off or make it to the top.

And what they dare to dream of, date to do.

Hope, like despair, is something of a distraction: it gets in the way of a clear view of the horizon.

I love the fact that it's not only about Star Trek, but about science fiction in general, and science.

Some shows, like PPG, tape in a group session, which is always more fun because you can play off each other.