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

As a result of 50 years of emancipation, feminine qualities were dying out or being transferred to the males. Pansies of both sexes were everywhere, not yet completely homosexual, but confused not knowing what they were. The result was a herd of unhappy sexual misfits... the women wanting to dominate and the men to be nannied.

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.

It was the short men that caused all the trouble in the world.

He could not just wear a watch. It had to be a Rolex.

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

If you interrupt the writing of fast narrative with too much introspection and self-criticism, you will be lucky if you write 500 words a day and you will be disgusted with them into the bargain. By following my formula, you write 2,000 words a day and you aren’t disgusted with them until the book is finished, which will be in about six weeks.