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.

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

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.

Keep on sowing your seed, for you never know which will grow - perhaps it all will.

Have thy tools ready. God will find thee work.

It has been my observation and experience, and that of my family, that nothing human works out well.

I read a lot. I liked a tremendous number of poets and writers. The person whose work I liked the most was Joyce.

Pass the bill to find out what's in it

Visionaries see the "impossible" as the inevitable.

There is a connection between energy, climate, food and political stability. That has played out in the Arab awakening and is not done playing out.

We learn to lie by believing words rather than experience.

I think painting is in fact a form of rehearsal expressed through different mediums.

Let every Christian, as much as in him lies, engage himself openly and publicly, before all the World, in some mental pursuit for the Building up of Jerusalem.