I am a poet in deeds--not often in words.

I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.

I have always smoked and drunk and loved too much. In fact I have lived not too long but too much. One day the Iron Crab will get me. Then I shall have died of living too much.

A woman can put up with almost anything; anything but indifference.

Against the background of this luminous and sparkling stage Bond stood in the sunshine and felt his mission to be incongruous and remote and his dark profession an affront to his fellow actors.

I always make it a rule never to look back. Otherwise, I'd ask myself how I could write such piffle and live with myself, day after day.

I'm not in the Shakespeare stakes. I have no ambition.