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.

Everyone has the revolver of resignation in his pocket.

Mine’s Bond – James Bond.

I would stay away from him and leave him to go his own road where there would be other women, countless other women, who would probably give him as much physical pleasure as he had had with me. I wouldn’t care, or at least I told myself that I wouldn’t care, because none of them would ever own him—own any larger piece of him than I now did.

The scent and smoke and sweat of a casino are nauseating at three in the morning.

A dry martini,' he said. 'One. In a deep champagne goblet.' ... Just a moment. Three measures of Gordon's, one of vodka, half a measure of Kina Lillet. Shake it very well until it's ice-cold, then add a large thin slice of lemon-peel. Got it?

It was the short men that caused all the trouble in the world.