I have always smoked and drunk and loved too much. In fact I have lived not too long but too much. One day the Iron Crab will get me. Then I shall have died of living too much.

People are islands,' she said. 'They don't really touch. However close they are, they're really quite separate. Even if they've been married for fifty years.

It reads better than it lives

I was just on the edge of getting married, and I was frenzied at the prospect of this great step in my life after having been a bachelor for so long. And I really wanted to take my mind off of the agony, and so I decided to sit down and write a book.

A gentleman's choice of timepiece says as much about him as does his Saville Row suit.

They want us dead,' said Bond calmly. 'So we have to stay alive.

Hope makes a good breakfast. Eat plenty of it.