Just As, At Least In One Religion,

Bond Always Mistrusted Short Men. They Grew Up From Childhood With An Inferiority Complex. All Their Lives They Would Strive To Be Big - Bigger Than The Others Who Had Teased Them As A Child. Napoleon Had Been Short, And Hitler. It Was The Short Men That Caused All The Trouble In The World.

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.

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.

I Take A Ridiculous Pleasure In What I Eat And Drink. It Comes Partly From Being A Bachelor, But Mostly From A Habit Of Taking A Lot Of Trouble Over Details. It's Very Persnickety And Old-maidish Really, But Then When I'm Working I Generally Have To Eat My Meals Alone And It Makes Them More Interesting When One Takes Trouble.

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.