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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Ahhh. Bed, book, kitten, sandwich. All one needed in life, really.

Investments are about the return they provide in increased opportunities, prosperity, health, wealth, happiness, joy, and success.

In Lascaux and other sites, hoofs are depicted to show their underside, or hoofprint.

Just think and the answers are endless, who am I? Where am from? where will I go?........

Make everybody fall out of the plane first, and then explain who they were and why they were in the plane to begin with.

I do really believe that beauty comes from within, mostly how you feel about yourself and how you express love of yourself, but also in the form of nutrition.

The secret is to write just anything, to dare to write just anything, because when you write just anything, you begin to say what is important.

Every night is different, you never know what it's going to be like. I remember every night. I don't like to compare them.

Whatever an author puts between the two covers of his book is public property; whatever of himself he does not put there is his private property, as much as if he had never written a word.

The most important question facing the planet is: Is it worth it?