Everything I write is designed to be milked to the last drop of revenue.

Any stupid remark, quoted often enough, becomes gospel.

It should cause no surprise that anyone so lazy as myself should be economical to the point of miserliness with everything he writes.

For there is a price ticket on everything that puts a whizz into life, and adventure follows the rule. It's distressing, but there you are.

The gleam in their eyes telegraphs only too clearly that they are hoping for a headline, which of course means something disparaging, because nothing makes such good copy as a feud.

I am an absurd idealist. But I believe that all that must come true. For, unless it comes true, the world will be laid desolate. And I believe that it can come true.

I had still never read one of the Bond books when the movie Dr. No came out.

If I didn't see its place in the Saga when I planned it, I probably wouldn't write it at all.

The Master said, “A true teacher is one who, keeping the past alive, is also able to understand the present.”(Analects 2.11)

The knowledge of course and effect is superior to miracles.

A fairytale is not an allegory. There may be allegory in it, but it is not an allegory.

Leuconoe, close the book of fate, For troubles are in store, . . . . Live today, tomorrow is not.

Heroes did not make our liberties; they but reflected and illustrated them.

Those Beliebers who haven't met me yet are the special ones.

I think Abraham Lincoln said believe nothing of what you hear and only half of what you see.

A bad decision well implemented is better than a brilliant decision not well implemented.

I would say everything should be able to come into a poem, but I can't put toothbrushes into a poem, I really can't!

Iran? Number 1! Russia? Number 1! USA? Hacktui!