I am a poet in deeds--not often in words.

Never say 'no' to adventures.

Mine’s Bond – James Bond.

Everything I write has a precedent in truth.

One of the bibles of my youth was 'Birds of the West Indies,' by James Bond, a well-known ornithologist, and when I was casting about for a name for my protagonist I thought, 'My God, that's the dullest name I've ever heard,' so I appropriated it. Now the dullest name in the world has become an exciting one.

Never job backwards. What might have been was a waste of time.

I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.