Laughter kills fear, and without fear there can be no faith. For without fear of the devil there is no need for God.

I am not an Englishman, I was never an Englishman, and I don't ever want to be one. I am a Scotsman! I was a Scotsman and I will always be one.

I don't understand if you get caught in a fight, but take it out on a room, how that implies some psychiatric disorder.

A martini. Shaken, not stirred.

Love may not make the world go round, but I must admit that it makes the ride worthwhile.

The key to a woman's heart is an unexpected gift at an unexpected time.

If you have to resort to violence, you've already lost.

If you fear nothing, you love nothing. If you love nothing, what joy can there be in life?

I like women. I don't understand them, but I like them.

If you can't do it with one bullet, don't do it at all.

You write your first draft with your heart and you re-write with your head. The first key to writing is to write, not to think.

The chef who cooks without a song on his lips cannot hope to infuse the right carefree improvisatory note into his art.

Imagination took the reins and Reason slow-paced though surefooted was unequal to a race with so eccentric and flighty a companion.

Humanization and coming to understand somebody as a human being is about as good a kind of forgiveness as you can get, I think.

As for myself, I was never against Russia.

The man of knowledge in our time is bowed down under a burden he never imagined he would ever have: the overproduction of truth that cannot be consumed.

Old men's prayers for death are lying prayers, in which they abuse old age and long extent of life. But when death draws near, not one is willing to die, and age no longer is a burden to them.

I think I always have been someone who likes to push at the edges of things, looking for something different.

However, even a strong government can't perform miracles. It needs money from the taxpayers.

Writing for me is a kind of compulsion, so I don't think anyone could have made me do it, or prevented me from doing it.

I think I am slowly becoming an anarchist, that this is only another label for my privateness, and I think that you will understand this in the sense of being against collectivity.