Today we are fighting Communism. Okay. If I'd been alive fifty years ago, the brand of Conservatism we have today would have been damn near called Communism and we should have been told to go and fight that. History is moving pretty quickly these days and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.

Men want a woman whom they can turn on and off like a light switch.

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.

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

Loneliness becomes a lover, solitude a darling sin.

I'm looking for Commander James Bond, not an overgrown stunt man. [on meeting Sean Connery]

Love of life is born of the awareness of death, of the dread of it.