Shaken and not stirred.
I'm not in the Shakespeare stakes. I have no ambition.
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.
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.
It reads better than it lives
It's no good protecting people or even looking after them past a certain point. One can't grasp more than a piece of anyone. Most of the rest can only be protected by themselves and the remainder by hired specialists and doctors and dentists and professional protectors.