William Boyd

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

— William Boyd

Human beings are interested in the human condition.

— William Boyd

“I am a total stranger, you see. Total.”

— William Boyd

She's half mad and three parts drunk.

— William Boyd

I let people off the hook too easily.

— William Boyd

Sometimes limbo is a tolerable place to be stuck.

— William Boyd

We talked filth for a pleasant half hour.

— William Boyd

“I am as sane as you are.”

— William Boyd

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

— William Boyd

There are things in life we don't understand, and when we meet them, all we can do is let them alone.

— William Boyd

“what is it about me and basements? Why do I like the semi-subterranean life?”

— William Boyd

“we think we understand all about the human body but actually we know very little.”

— William Boyd

“We all see the world differently from each other; we all have unique vision.”

— William Boyd

“Because it seems to me that to be human you have to be able to compromise.”

— William Boyd

We keep a journal to entrap that collection of selves that forms us, the individual human being.

— William Boyd

The last thing you know about yourself is your effect.

— William Boyd

“The view backward showed you all the twists and turns your life had taken, all the contingencies and chances, the random elements…

— William Boyd

“I felt shocked and then saddened. life does this to you sometimes - leads you up a path and then drops you…

— William Boyd

“Feelings of depression; feelings of frustration; feelings of emptiness in the face of all this randomness - done down by the haphazard,…

— William Boyd

“the key factor in our mutual pleasure was that we enjoyed each other’s company, which, banal though it may seem, is the…

— William Boyd

“It was pleasant - and the sense of otherness was nice, that there were two people involved in this process, that we…

— William Boyd

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

— William Boyd

“Winter reveals the massive, complex, muscular organization of the ancient oak. Like an old man stripped of his Savile Row, tailored suit…

— William Boyd

“Take a look at anyone’s life. Take a look at your own. In the long fold catastrophe that makes up your three-score…

— William Boyd

“A Horrible thought: could this be the pattern of my life ahead? Every ambition thwarted, every dream stillborn? But a seconds reflection…

— William Boyd

When it's mutual, a man and a woman know, instinctively, wordlessly. They may do nothing about it, but the knowledge of that…

— William Boyd

The only times we are consciously aware of the authorship of a photograph, I would argue, are when we contemplate the photographs…

— William Boyd

“Charbonneau was an interesting, amusing and provocative man and I like to think he brought out the best in me, also. Even…

— William Boyd

“Looking over the beach and the ocean as the sun begins to drop down in the west, a strange sense of pride:…

— William Boyd

“Loss adjusters are noble men who frustrate and negate the bland promises of insurance. We act out of the great unbending principles…

— William Boyd

“Maybe this is what life is like - we try to see clearly but what we see is never clear and is…

— William Boyd

“Like the button, the wheelbarrow, the spoon and the umbrella, the printed book is one of the truly great inventions of mankind…

— William Boyd

“Do you know that feeling? When you meet someone and you know? The sudden hollowing out of your torso, as if your…

— William Boyd

“All film technique, I am convinced (and like many of my theories I am probably alone in adhering to it), originates in…

— William Boyd

“She found a mossy hollow between the roots of a tree and, putting on her mackintosh, huddled down in her makeshift bed.…

— William Boyd

“When we parted, she held on to me tight and said, "I love you, Logan. Don't let's lose touch.' I couldn't stop…

— William Boyd

“The pleasures of my life here are simple – simple, inexpensive and democratic. A warm hill of Marmande tomatoes on a roadside…

— William Boyd

“Maybe we should go by tube', he said. A taxi'll come', she said. 'I'm in no hurry'. She remembered something a woman…

— William Boyd

“Sitting in this small pub with its cool flagged floor, listening to the murmuring voices of the haymakers and the click of…

— William Boyd

“No human being is entirely innocent”

— William Boyd