A woman should be an illusion.

A woman should be an illusion.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

This country-right-or-wrong business is getting a little out-of-date..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.

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.

Hope makes a good breakfast. Eat plenty of it.

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

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

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.

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

Prohibition is the trigger of crime.

Everyone has the revolver of resignation in his pocket.

Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire's eye or on the ball.

A woman should be an illusion.

Right now, there's the illusion of order and civilization, but there's a tremendous amount of economic tension in this country and the educational system is constantly eroding.

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.

Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.

If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.

Censors tend to do what only psychotics do: they confuse reality with illusion.

Do not be misled by what you see around you, or be influenced by what you see. You live in a world which is a playground of illusion, full of false paths, false values and false ideals. But you are not part of that world.

It was either Voltaire or Charlie Sheen who said, 'We are born alone. We live alone. We die alone. And anything in between that can give us the illusion that we're not, we cling to.'

It is pure illusion to think that an opinion that passes down from century to century, from generation to generation, may not be entirely false.

Of course the illusion of art is to make one believe that great literature is very close to life, but exactly the opposite is true. Life is amorphous, literature is formal.

We're living under the illusion that we have the power to determine what to do with it.

They're not even within 100 miles of Baghdad. They are not in any place. They hold no place in Iraq. This is an illusion... they are trying to sell to the others an illusion.

When playing a role, I would feel more comfortable, as you're given a prescribed way of behaving. So, both Facebook and theatre provide contrived settings that provide the illusion of social interaction.

If you understand hallucination and illusion, you don't blindly follow any leader. You must know if the person is sane or insane, over the abyss.

We're in an illusion about what our role is in world politics and foreign affairs, and our policies are killing and destroying and doing a lot of things that we are not aware of.

Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.