The most expensive part of building is the mistakes.

Proportion is the heart of beauty.

James Bond is quite serious about his drinks and clothing and cigarettes and food and all that sort of thing. There is nothing wry or amused about James Bond.

It's great that in the German language I've sold almost 30 million books. Isn't that amazing?

The degradation to which you subject others comes back, sooner or later, to haunt you.

Without books I would not have become a vivacious reader, and if you are not a reader you are not a writer.

It was the most romantic plane ever made.