Eventually, I was sent to Wales and Germany, and after the war, to Paris.

King Constantine IX of Regia had been killed three times and was bored with it. He wanted a bath.

Child, child, do you not see? For each of us comes a time when we must be more than what we are.

My concern is how we learn to be genuine human beings.

Miss Vesper Holly has the digestive talents of a goat and the mind of a chess master. She is familiar with half a dozen languages and can swear fluently in all of them. She understands the use of a slide rule but prefers doing calculations in her head. She does not hesitate to risk life and limb- mine as well as her own. No doubt she has other qualities as yet undiscovered. I hope not.

Keep reading. It's one of the most marvelous adventures that anyone can have.

A man who claims to be fearless is an idiot or a liar.