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

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.

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

He was a secret agent, and still alive thanks to his exact attention to the detail of his profession.

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.

If you interrupt the writing of fast narrative with too much introspection and self-criticism, you will be lucky if you write 500 words a day and you will be disgusted with them into the bargain. By following my formula, you write 2,000 words a day and you aren’t disgusted with them until the book is finished, which will be in about six weeks.

Just as, at least in one religion, accidia is the first of the cardinal sins, so bordom, and particularly the incredible circumstance of waking up bored, was the only vice Bond utterly condemned.