For there is a price ticket on everything that puts a whizz into life, and adventure follows the rule. It's distressing, but there you are.

Any stupid remark, quoted often enough, becomes gospel.

It should cause no surprise that anyone so lazy as myself should be economical to the point of miserliness with everything he writes.

The gleam in their eyes telegraphs only too clearly that they are hoping for a headline, which of course means something disparaging, because nothing makes such good copy as a feud.

I am an absurd idealist. But I believe that all that must come true. For, unless it comes true, the world will be laid desolate. And I believe that it can come true.

I had still never read one of the Bond books when the movie Dr. No came out.

Everything I write is designed to be milked to the last drop of revenue.

If I didn't see its place in the Saga when I planned it, I probably wouldn't write it at all.

One who throws stones at others has less to use to build his own house.

God’s glory is revealed through you to fill the earth

China has no income tax no unemployed and not a single soldier outside its own territory.

If I were asked ... to what the singular prosperity and growing strength of Americans ought mainly to be attributed, I should reply: To the superiority of their women.

Truth as philosophy is a gas; as art, it is visible steam.

I don't want to see the zipper in the back of the monster suit. Like everybody else who goes to the movies, I want to believe the monster is real.

I wish I could do something else, I wish I was an amazing painter or a brain surgeon or something, but it's just what it's been.

Every generous action loves the public view; yet no theatre for virtue is equal to a consciousness of it.

We had Americans gather together in prayer, before they went to stand before the federal government ... that prayed for peace, that there wouldn't be confrontation.

Simon drives me crazy. We are still arguing.