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

I'm looking for Commander James Bond, not an overgrown stunt man. [on meeting Sean Connery]

The World Is Not Enough

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

If you interrupt the writing of fast narrative with too much introspection and self-criticism, you will be lucky if you write 500 words a day and you will be disgusted with them into the bargain. By following my formula, you write 2,000 words a day and you aren’t disgusted with them until the book is finished, which will be in about six weeks.

But I am greedy for life. I do too much of everything all the time. Suddenly one day my heart will fail. The Iron Crab will get me as it got my father. But I am not afraid of The Crab. At least I shall have died from an honourable disease. Perhaps they will put on my tombstone. 'This Man Died from Living Too Much'.

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