There is a disconnect between the film Bond and the literary Bond which is their contemporaneity. I don't suffer from that.

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.

The last thing you know about yourself is your effect.

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.

Hmm, I officially amend my previous statement. Clearly one of them is that stupid.

Innovation! One cannot be forever innovating. I want to create classics.

What is it that love does to a woman? Without it she only sleeps with it alone she lives.

If at first you don't succeed... so much for skydiving.

That metre itself forms an essential part of all true poetry is a principle which not even the assertions of an Aristotle or the pronouncements of a Plato can disestablish.

Hulk Hogan, you may be a household word, but so is garbage, and it stinks when it gets old too.

A well dressed woman, even though her purse is painfully empty, can conquer the world.

You cannot acquire the gift of peace if by your anger you destroy the peace of the Lord.

Benevolent, enlightened, wise dictators are the most efficient form of government. The problem is what comes afterwards.

The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God.