For some men, nothing is Written unless they Write it.

Working gets in the way of living.

I want to live every moment totally and intensely. Even when I'm giving an interview or talking to people, that's all that I'm thinking about.

Women know when they've got the menopause but men don't quite know. They know it afterwards.

I'm very wary about giving advice. I think it's very dangerous to give advice to people, except if you know them very well.

I had too many big passions in life and it gets in the way of work. You can't concentrate properly on the one thing.

My philosophy is that when I go out of my room, I'm prepared to love everybody I meet, unless they're bad.

They chose me for Lawrence of Arabia because I spoke English, had black hair, black eyes and a moustache. It was all luck.

I've always been extremely lucky in my life.

I can't say I gave up totally my passion for women but almost.

I see only defects because I'm not following the scene as it were. I'm not following the other person. It's like the best thing to clarify this is the theater.

As for monkeys, I would have five, and they would be named: See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil, Do Pretty Much Whatever The Hell You Want, and Expensive Attorney.

By choosing our path, we choose our destination.

With a television series, there's a hard deadline, and so you have to write even when you're not writing well.

Stability and peace in our land will not come from the barrel of a gun, because peace without justice is an impossibility.

Nature is a tinkerer, not an inventor.

Medical science is as yet very imperfectly differentiated from common cure-mongering witchcraft

I wouldn't say Bond is an ideal figure, no. The character has been performed in so many different ways that people go, "Oh, that's an interesting take on Bond."

The best friend a man can have is reading and writing, and the bad ones to avoid are Go and chess and flute and pipe.

The drive toward complex technical achievement offers a clue to why the U.S. is good at space gadgetry and bad at slum problems.

The third guy was different. He was what you got when you ate squirrels for four generations. Smarter than a rat and tougher than a goat, and jumpier than either one.