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 fifty years.

Mine’s Bond – James Bond.

Shaken and not stirred.

If you interrupt the writing of fast narrative with too much introspection and self-criticism, you will be lucky if you write 500 words a day and you will be disgusted with them into the bargain. By following my formula, you write 2,000 words a day and you aren’t disgusted with them until the book is finished, which will be in about six weeks.

A gentleman's choice of timepiece says as much about him as does his Saville Row suit.

Our prisons are full of people who think they're Napoleon..or God.

Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.