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

It's no good protecting people or even looking after them past a certain point. One can't grasp more than a piece of anyone. Most of the rest can only be protected by themselves and the remainder by hired specialists and doctors and dentists and professional protectors.

I don't regard James Bond precisely as a hero, but at least he does get on and do his duty, in an extremely corny way.

Worry is a dividend paid to disaster before it is due

If you interrupt the writing of fast narrative with too much introspection and self-criticism, you will be lucky if you write 500 words a day and you will be disgusted with them into the bargain. By following my formula, you write 2,000 words a day and you aren’t disgusted with them until the book is finished, which will be in about six weeks.

Most marriages don't add two people together. They subtract one from the other.

...Goldfinger could not have known that high tension was Bond's natural way of life and that pressure and danger relaxed him.