Loneliness becomes a lover, solitude a darling sin.

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

If I wait for the genius to come, it just doesn't arrive.

When I wrote the first [Bond novel] in 1953, I wanted Bond to be an extremely dull, uninteresting man to whom things happened... when I was casting around for a name for my protagonist I thought by God, [James Bond] is the dullest name I ever heard.

Hope makes a good breakfast. Eat plenty of it.

He could not just wear a watch. It had to be a Rolex.

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