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

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This country-right-or-wrong business is getting a little out-of-date..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

To know that one has never really tried - that is the only death.

Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better.

We're all like children. We may think we grow up, but to me, being grown up is death, stopping thinking, trying to find out things, going on learning.

When you break up, your whole identity is shattered. It's like death.

Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.

Death comes not to the living soul, nor age to the loving heart.

Death is a distant rumor to the young.

For years the Trio did nothing but play for musicians and other hip people. We practically starved to death.

I don't sit in the corner waiting for death: death has to pursue me. I'm going strong. I hope to reach 100 and ask for an extension, just like my grandmother did.

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down .

Because the Illinois death penalty system is arbitrary and capricious - and therefore immoral - I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death.

I'm Irish. I think about death all the time.

I don't fear death because I don't fear anything I don't understand. When I start to think about it, I order a massage and it goes away.

The most dire disaster in love is the death of imagination.

Death doesn't frighten me; now I can think peacefully of ending a long life.

Death comes for us all. Even for kings he comes.

In Shakespearean tragedy the main source of the convulsion which produces suffering and death is never good: good contributes to this convulsion only from its tragic implication with its opposite in one and the same character.

It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood - no more - to man, and love to a woman is life or death.