I don't regard James Bond precisely as a hero, but at least he does get on and do his duty, in an extremely corny way.

At gambling, the deadly sin is to mistake bad play for bad luck.

Everyone has the revolver of resignation in his pocket.

Love of life is born of the awareness of death, of the dread of it.

Writing about 2,000 words in three hours every morning, 'Casino Royale' dutifully produced itself. I wrote nothing and made no corrections until the book was finished. If I had looked back at what I had written the day before I might have despaired.

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 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.