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

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 raped - by me.

Bond reflected that good Americans were fine people and that most of them seemed to come from Texas.

Like all harsh, cold men, he was easily tipped over into sentiment.

Most marriages don't add two people together. They subtract one from the other.

I have always smoked and drunk and loved too much. In fact I have lived not too long but too much. One day the Iron Crab will get me. Then I shall have died of living too much.

These blithering women who thought they could do a man's work. Why the hell couldn't they stay at home and mind their pots and pans and stick to their frocks and gossip and leave men's work to the men.