Bond always mistrusted short men. They grew up from childhood with an inferiority complex. All their lives they would strive to be big - bigger than the others who had teased them as a child. Napoleon had been short, and Hitler. It was the short men that caused all the trouble in the world.

I'm not in the Shakespeare stakes. I have no ambition.

I was just on the edge of getting married, and I was frenzied at the prospect of this great step in my life after having been a bachelor for so long. And I really wanted to take my mind off of the agony, and so I decided to sit down and write a book.

Loneliness becomes a lover, solitude a darling sin.

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

Never say 'no' to adventures.

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