He shrugged his shoulders to shift the pain of failure---the pain that is so much greater than the pleasure of success..

They want us dead,' said Bond calmly. 'So we have to stay alive..

...Goldfinger could not have known that high tension was Bond's natural way of life and that pressure and danger relaxed him..

Above all, he liked it that everything was one's own fault. There was only oneself to praise or blame. Luck was a servant and not a master. Luck had ….

Mine’s Bond – James Bond..

It reads better than it lives.

I always make it a rule never to look back. Otherwise, I'd ask myself how I could write such piffle and live with myself, day after day..

You can get far in North America with laconic grunts. "Huh," "hun," and "hi!" in their various modulations, together with "sure," "guess so," "that s….

As for sex, well, I mean sex is a perfectly respectable subject as far as Shakespeare is concerned. I mean, all history is love and violence..

It's no good protecting people or even looking after them past a certain point. One can't grasp more than a piece of anyone. Most of the rest can onl….

Just as, at least in one religion, accidia is the first of the cardinal sins, so bordom, and particularly the incredible circumstance of waking up bo….

I am a poet in deeds--not often in words..

I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them..

A gentleman's choice of timepiece says as much about him as does his Saville Row suit..

And then one day when you're playing your little game you'll suddenly find yourself pinned down like a butterfly..

Le Chiffre was serving a wonderful purpose, a really vital purpose, perhaps the best and highest purpose of all. By his evil existence, which foolish….

As a result of 50 years of emancipation, feminine qualities were dying out or being transferred to the males. Pansies of both sexes were everywhere, ….

It’s just that I’d rather die of drink than of thirst..

But I am greedy for life. I do too much of everything all the time. Suddenly one day my heart will fail. The Iron Crab will get me as it got my fathe….

Today we are fighting Communism. Okay. If I'd been alive fifty years ago, the brand of Conservatism we have today would have been damn near called Co….

If you interrupt the writing of fast narrative with too much introspection and self-criticism, you will be lucky if you write 500 words a day and you….