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.

Is there worse evil than that which goes in the mask of good?

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

She had no particular breed in mind, no unusual requirements. Except the special sense of mutual recognition that tells dog and human they have both come to the right place.

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

If life is a loom, the pattern you weave is not so easily unraveled.

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