There's a sense in all my novels that nothing is certain.

In some ways, you could argue, television is doing far more interesting work than the movies. It's more fulfilling.

There is a disconnect between the film Bond and the literary Bond which is their contemporaneity. I don't suffer from that.

I have this lock of hair that keeps falling across my forehead. It drives me mad.

To live as an artist requires hard work or some extraordinary good fortune to come your way.

She's half mad and three parts drunk.

When it's mutual, a man and a woman know, instinctively, wordlessly. They may do nothing about it, but the knowledge of that shared desire is out there in the world - as obvious as neon, saying: I want you, I want you, I want you.