“He had seen how the spirit, the reserves in [Bond], could pull him out of badly damaged conditions that would have broken the normal human being. He knew how a desperate situation would bring out those reserves again, how the will to live would spring up again in a real emergency. He remembered how countless neurotic patients had disappeared for ever from his consulting rooms when the last war had broken out. The big worry had driven out the smaller ones, the greater fear the lesser. He made up his mind. He turned back to M. "Give him one more chance.”

“Loneliness becomes a lover, solitude a darling sin.”

“Older women are best, because they always think they may be doing it for the last time.”

“You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.”

“Never job backwards. What might have been was a waste of time.”

“Worry is a dividend paid to disaster before it is due.”

“The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success”

“Never say ‘no’ to adventures. Always say ‘yes,’ otherwise you’ll lead a very dull life.”

“You are about to awake when you dream that you are dreaming.”

“Ian Fleming was my cousin, you know. He was in naval intelligence.”

“Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.-Ian Fleming”