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

Loneliness becomes a lover, solitude a darling sin.

You can get far in North America with laconic grunts. "Huh," "hun," and "hi!" in their various modulations, together with "sure," "guess so," "that so?" and "nuts!" will meet almost any contingency.

People are islands,' she said. 'They don't really touch. However close they are, they're really quite separate. Even if they've been married for fifty years.

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.

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.

It’s just that I’d rather die of drink than of thirst.