Most marriages don't add two people together. They subtract one from the other.

Bond sat for a moment frozen to his chair. Suddenly, there flashed unwanted into his mind that most sinister line in poetry: 'They reckon ill who leave me out. When me they fly, I am the wings.

Outside the bus the smell of sulphur hit Bond with sickening force. It was a horrible smell, from somewhere down in the stomach of the world.

People are fragile. They die of mistakes, of overdoses, of sickness. But mostly they die of Death.

Dakin: The more you read, though, the more you'll see that literature is actually about losers.Scripps: No.Dakin: It's consolation. All literature is consolation.

And to my soul mate, ” he raises his glass, “who has been with me all along, but is absent from my side.

Never do anything for anyone who can just as well do it themself

I can't do an accent unless I'm on the set. I forget how to do it until I'm on the set.

It is necessary, if one would read aright, that he should read at least two newspapers, representing both sides of important subjects.

You should figure out who you are and what you need, and then don't apologize for it.

I think I came back from America a funnier and nicer person than I went.

My mom's a nurse so I'd kind of grown up with, around medicine which is probably why I became an actress instead.

Other people may not have had high expectations for me... but I had high expectations for myself.