Hope makes a good breakfast. Eat plenty of it.

I always make it a rule never to look back. Otherwise, I'd ask myself how I could write such piffle and live with myself, day after day.

I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.

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

I have always smoked and drunk and loved too much. In fact I have lived not too long but too much. One day the Iron Crab will get me. Then I shall have died of living too much.

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.

And people with obsessions, reflected Bond, were blind to danger.