Mine’s Bond – James Bond.

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

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

It's no good protecting people or even looking after them past a certain point. One can't grasp more than a piece of anyone. Most of the rest can only be protected by themselves and the remainder by hired specialists and doctors and dentists and professional protectors.

There is only one recipe for a best seller and it is a very simple one. You have to get the reader to turn over the page.

...Goldfinger could not have known that high tension was Bond's natural way of life and that pressure and danger relaxed him.

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