I think it's the same with all the relationships between a man and a woman. They can survive anything so long as some kind of basic humanity exists between the two people. When all kindness has gone, when one person obviously and sincerely doesn't care if the other is alive or dead, then it's just no good. -- from Quantum of Solace

The gain to the winner is always less than the loss to the loser.

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

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

Shaken and not stirred.

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

One of the bibles of my youth was 'Birds of the West Indies,' by James Bond, a well-known ornithologist, and when I was casting about for a name for my protagonist I thought, 'My God, that's the dullest name I've ever heard,' so I appropriated it. Now the dullest name in the world has become an exciting one.