I will not sulk about having no boyfriend, but develop inner poise and authority and sense of self as woman of substance, complete without boyfriend, as best way to obtain boyfriend.

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.

When my vision is numbed by apathy and narrowed by mediocrity, I can stand in the presence of great things and fail to see even the smallest of things.

Sometimes it's not what you say, Valkyrie, it's just the fact that you're saying it.

In The Land of Poetry and Fighting, Efficiency rules the throne. I try to live here, so I shave my head because hair is dead and dead is inefficient.

The essence of fascism is to make laws forbidding everything and then enforce them selectively against your enemies.

A gynecologist is the dentist for the downstairs mouth.

Companies are not ingenious, it's the people in them that are.

I like to win, I like to compete and I like to sack the quarterback. I imagine there's a team out there looking for that.

Non-violence should never be used as a shield for cowardice. It is a weapon for the brave.

We do not have too much intellect and too little soul, but too little intellect in matters of the soul.

If then we have Angels, let us be sober, as though we were in the presence of tutors; for there is a demon present also.