Everyone has the revolver of resignation in his pocket.

There is only one recipe for a best seller and it is a very simple one. You have to get the reader to turn over the page.

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

I was just on the edge of getting married, and I was frenzied at the prospect of this great step in my life after having been a bachelor for so long. And I really wanted to take my mind off of the agony, and so I decided to sit down and write a book.

He shrugged his shoulders to shift the pain of failure---the pain that is so much greater than the pleasure of success.

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

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.