It Reads Better Than It Lives

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.

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.

The Gain To The Winner Is Always Less Than The Loss To The Loser.

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.

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.