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.

Shaken and not stirred.

I am a poet in deeds--not often in words.

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

It reads better than it lives

When I wrote the first [Bond novel] in 1953, I wanted Bond to be an extremely dull, uninteresting man to whom things happened... when I was casting around for a name for my protagonist I thought by God, [James Bond] is the dullest name I ever heard.

I take a ridiculous pleasure in what I eat and drink. It comes partly from being a bachelor, but mostly from a habit of taking a lot of trouble over details. It's very persnickety and old-maidish really, but then when I'm working I generally have to eat my meals alone and it makes them more interesting when one takes trouble.