I let people off the hook too easily.

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.

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.

There is a disconnect between the film Bond and the literary Bond which is their contemporaneity. I don't suffer from that.

Until we face the war within ourselves, the world will never change.

It's the people who aren't scared who die young.

Every single experience enriches the soul, like sun and water to the soil, depends how you make most of it.

Search then the ruling passion; there alone, The wild are constant, and the cunning known; The fool consistent, and the false sincere; Priests, princes, women, no dissemblers here.

The bathroom mirror has not budged, the woman who lives there can tell the truth from the stuff they say and looks me in the eye- says do you prefer the easy way? No? Well ok then, dont cry.

Readers of novels are a strange folk, upon whose probable or even possible tastes no wise book-maker would ever venture to bet.

You always know when something works it's a result of everything firing on all cylinders.

Emotions reflect intentions. Therefore, awareness of emotions leads to awareness of intentions.

My heart and my trust were in the process of collapsing. And that collapse created a vacuum in my chest.

Freewill means that the Universe never judges, never interferes with your own choices - and sees you as a being of equal creative power.