And then one day when you're playing your little game you'll suddenly find yourself pinned down like a butterfly.

You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.

And then one day when you're playing your little game you'll suddenly find yourself pinned down like a butterfly.

I always make it a rule never to look back. Otherwise, I'd ask myself how I could write such piffle and live with myself, day after day.

It’s just that I’d rather die of drink than of thirst.

People do connect me with James Bond simply because I happen to like scrambled eggs and short-sleeved shirts and some of the things that James Bond does, but I certainly haven't got his guts nor his very lively appetites.

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