“The view backward showed you all the twists and turns your life had taken, all the contingencies and chances, the random elements of good luck and bad luck that made up one person’s existence.” — William Boyd Copy Share Image
“That's ally our life amounts to in the end: the aggregate of all the good luck and the bad luck you experience. Everything is explained by that simple formula.” — William Boyd Copy Share Image
“Here at its extremities the terrified transients gathered, gazing out at the vast refulgent ocean for some sign of security.” — William Boyd Copy Share
“We all possess, like it or not, the people we know, and are possessed by them in turn.” — William Boyd Copy Share
“A warm sunny evening, the plash and gurgle of the waves in the rock pools, the rush of the cold gin. I thought for… — William Boyd Copy Share
I have this lock of hair that keeps falling across my forehead. It drives me mad. — William Boyd Copy Share
With film, you have very limited tools to convey subjectivity - voiceover, the camera's point of view, good acting - but even the very… — William Boyd Copy Share
“any man over forty who deliberately combs his hair forward in a child’s fringe has something suspect about him,” — William Boyd Copy Share
There are things in life we don't understand, and when we meet them, all we can do is let them alone. — William Boyd Copy Share
“Feelings of depression; feelings of frustration; feelings of emptiness in the face of all this randomness - done down by the haphazard, yet again.” — William Boyd Copy Share
There is a disconnect between the film Bond and the literary Bond which is their contemporaneity. I don't suffer from that. — William Boyd Copy Share
“So much for my great vendetta, so much for the tireless hunt for my betrayer. Isn't this how life turns out, more often than… — William Boyd Copy Share
