You have been the great green adventure of my life. Without you my days would be unlit.

I do, I’m afraid, understand books far more readily than I understand people. Books are so easy to get along with.

It is difficult to believe extraordinary things.

Let me introduce you. Sophie, this is Miss Eliot, from the National Childcare Agency. Miss Eliot, this is Sophie, from the ocean.

Only weak thinkers do not love the sky.

Governments can do both great and stupid things.

Keep you secret, then, my darling. Everybody needs them. Secrets make you tough, and wily.

Plagiarism is the fear of a blank page.

What if I've died a long time ago and come here? he wondered. What if the defining characteristic of hell is that you're locked in an endless, blind battle to reform it?

I am happy because my happiness does not depend on things, but on my thoughts.

Drama don't arrive by surprise

The terrible thing, the almost impossible thing, is the hand over your whole self--all your wishes and precautions--to Christ.

The longest journey is the journey inward.

When I was 15 I lost a tooth and had an implant put in. Cut to 20 years later, I'm doing this part [Andy Bernard] and the script calls for my character to lose a tooth.

We emphasized the creativeness that happens at the moment of seeing over the kind that takes place in the dark room.

The older I get, the more I'm prepared to do things for the money.

History will tell where I stand in the ranks of Bond villains, I have no control over that.