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.

Everything I write has a precedent in truth.

Shaken and not stirred.

Before a man's forty, girls cost nothing. After that you have to pay money, or tell a story. Of the two, it's the story that hurts most. Anyway I'm not forty yet.

I'm looking for Commander James Bond, not an overgrown stunt man. [on meeting Sean Connery]

Older women are best because they always think they may be doing it for the last time.

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.