I can't say I gave up totally my passion for women but almost.

Working gets in the way of living.

I want to live every moment totally and intensely. Even when I'm giving an interview or talking to people, that's all that I'm thinking about.

Women know when they've got the menopause but men don't quite know. They know it afterwards.

I'm very wary about giving advice. I think it's very dangerous to give advice to people, except if you know them very well.

I had too many big passions in life and it gets in the way of work. You can't concentrate properly on the one thing.

My philosophy is that when I go out of my room, I'm prepared to love everybody I meet, unless they're bad.

They chose me for Lawrence of Arabia because I spoke English, had black hair, black eyes and a moustache. It was all luck.

I've always been extremely lucky in my life.

For some men, nothing is Written unless they Write it.

I see only defects because I'm not following the scene as it were. I'm not following the other person. It's like the best thing to clarify this is the theater.

Damoder climbed slowly to his feet. 'Buy lot!' he wheedled, 'I am poor man. I sell you cheap. I am bank-Rupert! Apparently the only things that could save him from bank-rupertcy were our dollars.

As soon as he had departed she directed her attention to the others.“I need a shielded containment box, radiation gloves and a micro welding torch. And a crescent wrench.

To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.

I think the novel is the American form because people read it in private, and the only valuable things that happen in America happen in private life, because public life is a dead loss.

What is the thing that matters most to making progress right now?

Sometimes you have to get rid of something that's good, and tinker with something that's better.

I’m the youngest in my family and everyone is very funny, and I was always trying to keep up with them. I just loved making people laugh.

That choice to be ready to reject all other purposes, in favor of the possibilities of language freed from utility, is when the writer becomes a poet.

All quitters are good losers.

Claiming that someone's marriage is against your religion is like being angry at someone for eating a donut because you're on a diet.