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

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.

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

All women love semi-rape. They love to be taken.It was his sweet brutality against my bruised body that made his act of love so piercingly wonderful.

Bond always mistrusted short men. They grew up from childhood with an inferiority complex. All their lives they would strive to be big - bigger than the others who had teased them as a child. Napoleon had been short, and Hitler. It was the short men that caused all the trouble in the world.

You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.

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.