“There's a Good Book about goodness and how to be good and so forth, but there's no Evil Book about how to be evil and how to be bad. The Devil had no prophets to write his Ten Commandments, and no team of authors to write his biography. His case has gone completely by default. We know nothing about him but a lot of fairy stories from our parents and schoolmasters. He has no book from which we can learn the nature of evil in all its forms, with parables about evil people, proverbs about evil people, folklore about evil people. All we have is the living example of people who are least good, or our own intuition.”

“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”