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

Unfortunately most ways of making big money take a long time. By the time one has made the money one is too old to enjoy it.

He shrugged his shoulders to shift the pain of failure---the pain that is so much greater than the pleasure of success.

Older women are best because they always think they may be doing it for the last time.

History is moving pretty quickly these days, and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.

Before a man's forty, girls cost nothing. After that you have to pay money, or tell a story. Of the two, it's the story that hurts most. Anyway I'm not forty yet.

I always make it a rule never to look back. Otherwise, I'd ask myself how I could write such piffle and live with myself, day after day.