I'm Not In The Shakespeare Stakes. I

Everything I Write Has A Precedent In Truth.

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.

Luck In All Its Moods Had To Be Loved And Not Feared Bond Saw Luck As A Woman, To Be Softly Wooed Or Brutally Ravaged, Never Pandered To Or Pursued. But He Was Honest Enough To Admit That He Had Never Yet Been Made To Suffer By Cards Or By Women. One Day, And He Accepted The Fact He Would Be Brought To His Knees By Love Or By Luck.

Today We Are Fighting Communism. Okay. If I'd Been Alive Fifty Years Ago, The Brand Of Conservatism We Have Today Would Have Been Damn Near Called Communism And We Should Have Been Told To Go And Fight That. History Is Moving Pretty Quickly These Days And The Heroes And Villains Keep On Changing Parts.

Diamonds Are Forever.