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

Men want a woman whom they can turn on and off like a light switch.

It reads better than it lives

Unfortunately most ways of making big money take a long time. By the time one has made the money one is too old to enjoy it.

My mental hands were empty, and I felt I must do something as a counterirritant or antibody to my hysterical alarm at getting married at the age of 43.

I don't regard James Bond precisely as a hero, but at least he does get on and do his duty, in an extremely corny way.

Bond always mistrusted short men. They grew up from childhood with an inferiority complex. All their lives they would strive to be big - bigger than the others who had teased them as a child. Napoleon had been short, and Hitler. It was the short men that caused all the trouble in the world.