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.

A woman can put up with almost anything; anything but indifference.

There is only one recipe for a best seller and it is a very simple one. You have to get the reader to turn over the page.

Our prisons are full of people who think they're Napoleon..or God.

At gambling, the deadly sin is to mistake bad play for bad luck.

A dry martini,' he said. 'One. In a deep champagne goblet.' ... Just a moment. Three measures of Gordon's, one of vodka, half a measure of Kina Lillet. Shake it very well until it's ice-cold, then add a large thin slice of lemon-peel. Got it?