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

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.

And then one day when you're playing your little game you'll suddenly find yourself pinned down like a butterfly.

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.

I'm not in the Shakespeare stakes. I have no ambition.

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.

Against the background of this luminous and sparkling stage Bond stood in the sunshine and felt his mission to be incongruous and remote and his dark profession an affront to his fellow actors.