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.

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

Mine’s Bond – James Bond.

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

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.

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

Loneliness becomes a lover, solitude a darling sin.