I would stay away from him and leave him to go his own road where there would be other women, countless other women, who would probably give him as much physical pleasure as he had had with me. I wouldn’t care, or at least I told myself that I wouldn’t care, because none of them would ever own him—own any larger piece of him than I now did.

Most marriages don't add two people together. They subtract one from the other.

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

He shrugged his shoulders to shift the pain of failure---the pain that is so much greater than the pleasure of success.

And don't get hurt,' [Dexter] added. 'There's no one to help you up there. And don't go stirring up a lot of trouble for us. This case isn't ripe yet. Until it is, our policy with Mr Big is 'live and let live'.' Bond looked quizzically at Captain Dexter In my job,' he said, 'when I come up against a man like this one, I have another motto. It's 'live and let die'.

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

Worry is a dividend paid to disaster before it is due