The last thing you know about yourself is your effect.

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.

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.

In the year 2006, a person can have sufficient intellectual and material resources to build a nuclear bomb and still believe that he will get seventy-two virgins in Paradise.

Grace is the fullness of God.

Compassion brings people together.

I went to the top of Vesuvius and looked in.

Examine the religious principles which have, in fact, prevailed in the world. You will scarcely be persuaded that they are other than sick men's dreams.

The history of the bow and arrow is the history of mankind

I long to talk with some old lover's ghost, Who died before the god of love was born.

Go away, dig a hole, do something else, come back and it magically rejuvenates your creative impulses and stuff.

We need to be just before we are generous, as we need shirts before ruffles.

Some people cannot see a priest on a mountain of sugar.