“I would stay away from him and leave him to go his own road where there would be other women, countless other women, who would probably give him as much physical pleasure as he had had with me. I wouldn’t care, or at least I told myself that I wouldn’t care, because none of them would ever own him—own any larger piece of him than I now did.”

“I would stay away from him and leave him to go his own road where there would be other women, countless other women, who would probably give him as much physical pleasure as he had had with me. I wouldn’t care, or at least I told myself that I wouldn’t care, because none of them would ever own him—own any larger piece of him than I now did.”

“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”