There are things in life we don't understand, and when we meet them, all we can do is let them alone.

We never love anyone. Not really. We only love our idea of another person. It is some conception of our own that we love. We love ourselves, in fact.

Dignity was the first quality to be abandoned when the heart took over the running of human affairs.

The last thing you know about yourself is your effect.

I don't think they'll ever make a retro Bond.

I have teken refuge in the doctrine that advises one not to seek tranquility in certainty but in permanently suspended judgement.

We keep a journal to entrap that collection of selves that forms us, the individual human being.

I have to start my real life soon, before I die of boredom and frustration.

Film is a medium of clear lines and broad strikes - which can be fantastic - but compared to the subtleties and nuances of a novel, it doesn't even get close.

I let people off the hook too easily.

There is a disconnect between the film Bond and the literary Bond which is their contemporaneity. I don't suffer from that.

It is love, has been love, will always be love that makes the biggest difference in our world.

The malpractice for advice-giving is like five times as much as a craniotomy.

Fashion, for me, is anything that's aesthetic and beautiful. Art, food, film. It's something that I appreciate and really like.

I have an activist's desire to improve people's lives.

The only way to know how a complex system will behave-after you modify it-is to modify it and see how it behaves.

We disjoint the mind like the body.

Why would we have different races if God meant us to be alike and associate with each other?

I was always really strict on myself about doing everything possible to prepare for competition.

I'm not going to be the first American president to lose a war.

As an individual becomes aware of subliminal phenomena, the shock may cause him some initial physical or emotional discomfort - possibly even concern over his sanity.