In angry protest the red telephone splintered the silence.

He shrugged his shoulders to shift the pain of failure---the pain that is so much greater than the pleasure of success.

And people with obsessions, reflected Bond, were blind to danger.

His headache was still sitting over his right eye as if it had been nailed there.

Each dark conjecture came and for a moment settled like a vulture on Bond's shoulder and croaked into his ear that he had been a blind fool.

They want us dead, ' said Bond calmly. 'So we have to stay alive.

Champagne and Benzedrine! Never again.

There are two principles between which there can be no compromise—liberty and coercion.

Some women are smarter than men, and some aren't. But to suggest to women that they deserve dominance instead of equality is at best a cheap applause line.

Decisions are made by those who show up.

Better not to start down a wrong path at all than head down it in the hope of making a detour when something better came along.

Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it.

There is no luck, you work hard and study things intently. If you do that for long and hard enough you're successful.

I think that standup has always been an acquired taste and there was always only a handful of performers that were really inspired.

A prison does not only lock its inmates inside, it keeps all others out. Her strongest prison is of her own construction.

I think everything I have done in my life, my reasons at the time were right no matter how things worked out.

I don't analyze things like titles.