Great love, you believe, carries the seeds of great sorrow.

...or perhaps about acknowledging that life is a delicate balance of great forces, and that good would lose its potency if there was no evil left to fight in the world.

It was one of those moments that no scientist can ever reduce to numbers, try as she might.

Show me a girl with her feet planted firmly on the ground and I'll show you a girl who can't put her pants on.-Annik Marchand

You need to take out the stuff that’s just sitting there and doing nothing. No slackers allowed! All meat, no filler!

God has a sense of humor. If you don't believe me, tomorrow go to wal-mart and just look at people.

I love being directed. I always find it helpful to have someone else's brain in the mix and not just have to rely on myself.

If I can't affect some change in six years, maybe I'm in the wrong place.

Britain has no divine right to be one of the richest countries in the world.

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.

There was just no good way for a dead son to greet his mother almost two weeks after his funeral.

I can never go to a clairvoyant. I'd be too afraid of what they might tap into.

I never did cheesecake; I just used my hair.