There is only one recipe for a best seller and it is a very simple one. You have to get the reader to turn over the page..

Surround yourself with human beings, my dear James. They are easier to fight for than principles..

Bond didn't defend the practice. He simply maintained that the more effort and ingenuity you put into gambling, the more you took out..

She explained to me later that she must have been possessed by a subconscious desire to be raped. Well she found me in the mountains and she was rape….

Shaken and not stirred..

It was the same with the whole Russian machine. Fear was the impulse. For them it was always safer to advance than retreat. Advance against the enemy….

A woman can put up with almost anything; anything but indifference..

The World Is Not Enough.

Loneliness becomes a lover, solitude a darling sin..

I'm looking for Commander James Bond, not an overgrown stunt man. [on meeting Sean Connery].

Everything I write has a precedent in truth..

Writing about 2,000 words in three hours every morning, 'Casino Royale' dutifully produced itself. I wrote nothing and made no corrections until the ….

He was a secret agent, and still alive thanks to his exact attention to the detail of his profession..

Englishmen are so odd. They are like a nest of Chinese boxes. It takes a very long time to get to the centre of them. When one gets there the result ….

Unfortunately most ways of making big money take a long time. By the time one has made the money one is too old to enjoy it..

Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action..

You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face..

Never say 'no' to adventures..

Hope makes a good breakfast. Eat plenty of it..

Worry is a dividend paid to disaster before it is due.

Older women are best because they always think they may be doing it for the last time..