Bond didn't defend the practice. He simply maintained that the more effort and ingenuity you put into gambling, the more you took out.

People are islands,' she said. 'They don't really touch. However close they are, they're really quite separate. Even if they've been married for fifty years.

He was a secret agent, and still alive thanks to his exact attention to the detail of his profession.

I am a poet in deeds--not often in words.

Like all harsh, cold men, he was easily tipped over into sentiment.

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.

Smoking I find the most ridiculous of all the varieties of human behavior and practically the only one that is entirely against nature. Can you imagine a cow or any animal taking a mouthful of smoldering straw then breathing in the smoke and blowing it out through its nostrils?