F. Scott Fitzgerald

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

A jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build one.

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.