You Only Live Twice. Once When You

When I Wrote The First [bond Novel] In 1953, I Wanted Bond To Be An Extremely Dull, Uninteresting Man To Whom Things Happened... When I Was Casting Around For A Name For My Protagonist I Thought By God, [james Bond] Is The Dullest Name I Ever Heard.

I'm Getting Very Sorry For The Devil And His Disciples Such As The Good Le Chiffre. The Devil Has A Rotten Time And I Always Like To Be On The Side Of The Underdog. We Don't Give The Poor Chap A Chance...the Devil Had No Prophets To Write His Ten Commandments And No Team Of Authors To Write His Biography.

The Conventional Parabola--sentiment, The Touch Of The Hand, The Kiss, The Passionate Kiss, The Feel Of The Body, The Climax In The Bed, Then More Bed, Then Less Bed, Then The Boredom, The Tears And The Final Bitterness--was To Him Shameful And Hypocritical.

All The Greatest Men Are Maniacs. They Are Possessed By A Mania Which Drives Them Forward Towards Thier Goal. The Great Scientists, The Philosophers, The Religious Leaders - All Maniacs. What Else But A Blind Singlenee Of Purpose Could Have Given Focus To Thier Genius, Would Have Kept Them In The Groove Of Purpose. Mania... Is As Priceless As Genius.

He Shrugged His Shoulders To Shift The Pain Of Failure---the Pain That Is So Much Greater Than The Pleasure Of Success.