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

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.

The World Is Not Enough

Everything I write has a precedent in truth.

You can get far in North America with laconic grunts. "Huh," "hun," and "hi!" in their various modulations, together with "sure," "guess so," "that so?" and "nuts!" will meet almost any contingency.

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?

There is only one recipe for a best seller and it is a very simple one. You have to get the reader to turn over the page.