She wanted to freeze the hands of time. Wanted to revisit, revise and rewrite the past…edit out the monsters hell-bent on taking the lives of everyone she loved.

Grief—in all of its agony—burrowed deep into her essence, its serrated edges killing her piece by piece.

He retrieved the words from somewhere long forgotten. They floated through the foggy recesses of his mind, plucked from the dark and released into the air like a dove.

When a man comes to me for advice I find out the kind of advice he wants and I give it to him.

Ian Fleming was my cousin, you know. He was in naval intelligence.

I don't like business talkers, you know, people who are constantly like, 'Blah blah blah movies.' I find it incredibly boring.

For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.

The world is a diamond cut from our surprise.

Good sense travels on the well-worn paths; genius, never. And that is why the crowd, not altogether without reason, is so ready to treat great men as lunatics.

I had such a good time working with John Woo and John Travolta, and it was so professional. I want to work with people who are real professionals.

He loves basketball. And I said Obama loves basketball. Let's start there, all right. Start there.

I have now understood that though it seems to men that they live by care for themselves, in truth it is love alone by which they live. He who has love, is in God, and God is in him, for God is love.

I am rich from the bequests other gifted people have seen fit to leave to me.