Older women are best because they always think they may be doing it for the last time.

Loneliness becomes a lover, solitude a darling sin.

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.

People do connect me with James Bond simply because I happen to like scrambled eggs and short-sleeved shirts and some of the things that James Bond does, but I certainly haven't got his guts nor his very lively appetites.

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

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

Bond reflected that good Americans were fine people and that most of them seemed to come from Texas.