It's no good protecting people or even looking after them past a certain point. One can't grasp more than a piece of anyone. Most of the rest can only be protected by themselves and the remainder by hired specialists and doctors and dentists and professional protectors.

Hope makes a good breakfast. Eat plenty of it.

I don't regard James Bond precisely as a hero, but at least he does get on and do his duty, in an extremely corny way.

The gain to the winner is always less than the loss to the loser.

You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.

But I am greedy for life. I do too much of everything all the time. Suddenly one day my heart will fail. The Iron Crab will get me as it got my father. But I am not afraid of The Crab. At least I shall have died from an honourable disease. Perhaps they will put on my tombstone. 'This Man Died from Living Too Much'.

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