Ian Fleming

A woman should be an illusion.

If I wait for the genius to come, it just doesn't arrive.

As for sex, well, I mean sex is a perfectly respectable subject as far as Shakespeare is concerned. I mean, all history is love and violence.

One of the bibles of my youth was 'Birds of the West Indies,' by James Bond, a well-known ornithologist, and when I was casting about for a name for my protagonist I thought, 'My God, that's the dullest name I've ever heard,' so I appropriated it. Now the dullest name in the world has become an exciting one.

Everyone has the revolver of resignation in his pocket.

Hope makes a good breakfast. Eat plenty of it.

I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.

Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times its enemy action.

Men want a woman whom they can turn on and off like a light switch.

Its just that Id rather die of drink than of thirst.

Writing about 2,000 words in three hours every morning, 'Casino Royale' dutifully produced itself. I wrote nothing and made no corrections until the book was finished. If I had looked back at what I had written the day before I might have despaired.

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

At gambling the deadly sin is to mistake bad play for bad luck.

A gentlemans choice of timepiece says as much about him as does his Saville Row suit.

Follow your fate and be satisfied with it and be glad not to be a second hand motor salesman or a yellow press journalist pickled in gin and nicotine or a cripple or dead.

Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.

Never say 'no' to adventures. Always say 'yes', otherwise you'll lead a very dull life.

I don't regard James Bond precisely as a hero, but at least he does get on and do his duty, in an extremely corny way.

It was the short men that caused all the trouble in the world.

As a result of 50 years of emancipation, feminine qualities were dying out or being transferred to the males. Pansies of both sexes were everywhere, not yet completely homosexual, but confused not knowing what they were. The result was a herd of unhappy sexual misfits... the women wanting to dominate and the men to be nannied.

His headache was still sitting over his right eye as if it had been nailed there.

People do connect me with James Bond simply because I happen to like scrambled eggs and short-sleeved shirts and some of the things that James Bond does, but I certainly haven't got his guts nor his very lively appetites.

A horse is dangerous at both ends and uncomfortable in the middle.

Bond reflected that good Americans were fine people and that most of them seemed to come from Texas.

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

I was just on the edge of getting married, and I was frenzied at the prospect of this great step in my life after having been a bachelor for so long. And I really wanted to take my mind off of the agony, and so I decided to sit down and write a book.

This country-right-or-wrong business is getting a little out-of-date.. History is moving pretty quickly these days and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.

Prohibition is the trigger of crime.

I'm not in the Shakespeare stakes. I have no ambition.

Most marriages don't add two people together. They subtract one from the other.