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

If I wait for the genius to come, it just doesn't arrive.

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?

Le Chiffre was serving a wonderful purpose, a really vital purpose, perhaps the best and highest purpose of all. By his evil existence, which foolishly I have helped to destroy, he was creating a norm of badness by which, and by which alone, an opposite norm of goodness could exist. We were privileged, in our short knowledge of him, to see and estimate his wickedness and we emerge from the acquaintanceship better and more virtuous men.

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

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.

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