There is no point in asking a man a question until you have established whether he has any reason to lie to you.

James Bond is quite serious about his drinks and clothing and cigarettes and food and all that sort of thing. There is nothing wry or amused about James Bond.

When you're thinking, please remember this: excessive pride is a familiar sin, but a man may just as easily frustrate the will of God through excessive humility.

His aim was the glory of God, but the glory of Philip pleased him too.

Thrillers have been traditionally very masculine books; the women characters often rather decorative.

Proportion is the heart of beauty.

The degradation to which you subject others comes back, sooner or later, to haunt you.