For me, writing Bridget's [Jones] stories is an instinctive, organic thing, which tends to happen more by accident than design.

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.

All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in., March 9, 1998]

In my case, I was not frightened in the least bit at the thought that I might live because I was certain, quite certain, that I was already dead.

the silence people, hear everything.

Our doom is, to be sifted by the wind, heaped up, smoothed down like silly sands. We are less permanent than thought.

When you laugh at the world, the world dissolves.

I don't have specific people. There are so many people that I admire and there's directors that I'm desperate to work with that haven't even made a movie yet, probably.

I sort of see [cannabis] as the pilot light of Gian consciousness.

I think - you know, I'm a guy that - I don't live on the earth just to walk it. I live on here to make a difference.

I don't know how we had about eighteen international stars in it, all playing James Bond.

I drink alone in my study, huddled close to the brazier.