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

Sometimes limbo is a tolerable place to be stuck.

I let people off the hook too easily.

We never love anyone. Not really. We only love our idea of another person. It is some conception of our own that we love. We love ourselves, in fact.

I don't think they'll ever make a retro Bond.

In the broad spectrum of the arts, two worlds rarely overlap - the literary world and the world of rock music.

We talked filth for a pleasant half hour.