Diamonds are forever..

Before a man's forty, girls cost nothing. After that you have to pay money, or tell a story. Of the two, it's the story that hurts most. Anyway I'm n….

If I wait for the genius to come, it just doesn't arrive..

And don't get hurt,' [Dexter] added. 'There's no one to help you up there. And don't go stirring up a lot of trouble for us. This case isn't ripe yet….

Love of life is born of the awareness of death, of the dread of it..

A woman should be an illusion.

All women love semi-rape. They love to be taken.It was his sweet brutality against my bruised body that made his act of love so piercingly wonderful..

I'm getting very sorry for the Devil and his disciples such as the good Le Chiffre. The devil has a rotten time and I always like to be on the side o….

I think it's the same with all the relationships between a man and a woman. They can survive anything so long as some kind of basic humanity exists b….

Smoking I find the most ridiculous of all the varieties of human behavior and practically the only one that is entirely against nature. Can you imagi….

People are islands,' she said. 'They don't really touch. However close they are, they're really quite separate. Even if they've been married for fift….

When I wrote the first [Bond novel] in 1953, I wanted Bond to be an extremely dull, uninteresting man to whom things happened... when I was casting a….

My mental hands were empty, and I felt I must do something as a counterirritant or antibody to my hysterical alarm at getting married at the age of 4….

At gambling, the deadly sin is to mistake bad play for bad luck..

I don't regard James Bond precisely as a hero, but at least he does get on and do his duty, in an extremely corny way..

Luck in all its moods had to be loved and not feared. Bond saw luck as a woman, to be softly wooed or brutally ravaged, never pandered to or pursued..

The scent and smoke and sweat of a casino are nauseating at three in the morning..

Luck in all its moods had to be loved and not feared Bond saw luck as a woman, to be softly wooed or brutally ravaged, never pandered to or pursued. ….

People do connect me with James Bond simply because I happen to like scrambled eggs and short-sleeved shirts and some of the things that James Bond d….

And people with obsessions, reflected Bond, were blind to danger..

The conventional parabola--sentiment, the touch of the hand, the kiss, the passionate kiss, the feel of the body, the climax in the bed, then more be….