Valentine's Day purely commercial, cynical enterprise, anyway. Matter of supreme indifference to me.

It is horrid to smirk.

When someone loves you it's like having a blanket all round your heart.

It occurred to me that if Africa needed us, sometimes we needed Africa a great deal more.

I like you very much. Just as you are.

It is proved by surveys that happiness does not come from love, wealth, or power but the pursuit of attainable goals.

Sink into morbid, cynical reflection on how much romantic heartbreak is to do with ego and miffed pride rather than actual loss

One must not live one's life through men but must be complete on oneself as a woman of substance.

No one is thinking about you. They're thinking about themselves, just like you.

Tom has a theory that homosexuals and single women in their thirties have natural bonding: both being accustomed to disappointing their parents and being treated as freaks by society.

It's rather fun writing a female spy, because she has so much more kit. Bond never carried a hair dryer or a makeup bag. And he certainly didn't wear an uplift bra.

And I was fairly certain that my strong-enough-for-King-Kong-but-made-for-a-woman deodorant had utterly failed. --Doom with a View

There is something more beautiful than a beautiful thing and that is a beautiful thing which has a beautiful reflection on the water!

We [journalists] tell the public which way the cat is jumping. The public will take care of the cat.

Fiction is a sort of inter-human magic, allowing you to travel into a scene and feel it tingle on your skin.

I'm trying to be really coy, and I'm not sure if I'm doing a good job.

This world would be a whole lot better if we just made an effort to be less horrible to one another.

I do think the author ought to be able to give a good reason for the way things are in his poem. Not a bad question to ask oneself.

God permits what He hates in order to accomplish something that He loves.

I realize that if I were in that situation - living a hard life with people telling them they're not worthy of love - maybe I would be that strong and that brave.

It is possible to tell a customer "no", and have the customer thank you for doing it