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.

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

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.

Shaken and not stirred.

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

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 bed, then less bed, then the boredom, the tears and the final bitterness--was to him shameful and hypocritical.

The gain to the winner is always less than the loss to the loser.