Outside the bus the smell of sulphur hit Bond with sickening force. It was a horrible smell, from somewhere down in the stomach of the world.

Most marriages don't add two people together. They subtract one from the other.

Bond sat for a moment frozen to his chair. Suddenly, there flashed unwanted into his mind that most sinister line in poetry: 'They reckon ill who leave me out. When me they fly, I am the wings.

It's worth making time to find the things that really stir your soul. That’s what makes you really feel alive. You have to say ‘no’ to other things you’re used to, and do it with all your heart.

There is only one all-pervading God. It has no religion, no incarnation. It is free from all contaminations.

It is more necessary for the soul to be cured than the body

I repeatedly refuse to make any practical decisions. I get a feeling of nausea about practicality.

If I loved someone enough, I would go anywhere in the world with them." —Staggerlee

An individual chooses and makes himself.

They have actually approved a wall to certain portions of the border that hasn't even been built yet. So you could take a year building that out with what has been approved.

I'm not really a morning person.

Psychoanalysis showed me that I might be neurotic because I was a girl but, as Chekhov might have put it, I alone had to squeeze the slave out of myself, drop by drop.

What's similar between Britain and America is the lack of good-quality civic buildings.