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

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

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.

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

As for sex, well, I mean sex is a perfectly respectable subject as far as Shakespeare is concerned. I mean, all history is love and violence.

It was the same with the whole Russian machine. Fear was the impulse. For them it was always safer to advance than retreat. Advance against the enemy and the bullet might miss you. Retreat, evade, betray and the bullet would never miss.

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