Our plants had now increased to 252: as they were all kept on shore at the tent I augmented the guard there, though from the general conduct of the natives there did not appear the least occasion for so much caution.
A terrorist is someone who has a bomb, but doesn't have an air force.
There's got to be something that you can do that will not just be a nice honor to the play, or the book, or the movie you're dealing with, but some aspect that maybe can explore something that the play couldn't do.
And once I know what the first page is, then the rest will come.
Go straight for souls, and go for the worst.
The profession of a prostitute is the only career in which the maximum income is paid to the newest apprentice.
I must assert in the most unqualified way that it is primarily and mainly for the sake of saving the soul that I seek the salvation of the body.
Human beings are interested in the human condition.
I let people off the hook too easily.
The last thing you know about yourself is your effect.
I don't think they'll ever make a retro Bond.
There is a disconnect between the film Bond and the literary Bond which is their contemporaneity. I don't suffer from that.
Film is a medium of clear lines and broad strikes - which can be fantastic - but compared to the subtleties and nuances of a novel, it doesn't even get close.
I know many older writers who were very successful and whose books are now out of print, so you have to go to antiquarian booksellers to buy their fifth or eighth novel or whatever it is.
We follow the rules laid out in the Bible for running our church.
The February sunshine steeps your boughs and tints the buds and swells the leaves within.
I profoundly believe it takes a lot of practice to become a moral slob.
Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the costs become prohibitive.
Back in the thirties we were told we must collectivize the nation because the people were so poor. Now we are told we must collectivize the nation because the people are so rich.
Scientists are people who build the Brooklyn Bridge and then buy it.
It is not a sign of arrogance for the king to rule. That is what he is there for.
