"It’s just that I’d rather die of drink than of thirst."

"Loneliness becomes a lover, solitude a darling sin."

"Everyone has the revolver of resignation in his pocket."

"The World Is Not Enough"

"Unfortunately most ways of making big money take a long time. By the time one has made the money one is too old to enjoy it."

"It was the short men that caused all the trouble in the world."

"Bond reflected that good Americans were fine people and that most of them seemed to come from Texas."

"Never say 'no' to adventures."

"A woman can put up with almost anything; anything but indifference."

"Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action"

"The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success"

"Surround yourself with human beings, my dear James. They are easier to fight for than principles."

"Mr Bond, they have a saying in Chicago: 'Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it's enemy action'."

"People are islands,' she said. 'They don't really touch. However close they are, they're really quite separate. Even if they've been married for fifty years."

"I am a poet in deeds--not often in words."

"You only live twice: Once when you are born And once when you look death in the face"

"Never say 'no' to "adventures". Always say 'yes,' otherwise you'll lead a very dull life."

"I was a very idealistic, very romantic kid in a very typically Midwestern Methodist repressed home. There was no show of affection of any kind, and I escaped to dreams and fantasies produced, by and large, by the music and the movies of the '30s."

"As Ray Bradbury - a longtime contributor to Playboy - said a long time ago, a lot of people, when they're talking about the contents of the magazine, they don't see the forest. People don't see the other part of my life because they're too fascinated with the girls."

"Without question, love in its various permutations is what we need more of in this world. The idea that the concept of marriage will be sullied by same-sex marriage is ridiculous. Heterosexuals haven't been doing that well at it on their own."

"After world war all we got was a lot of conformity, and conservatism and when I was in college at the university of Illinois the skirt lengths dropped instead of going up as they had during the roaring twenties and I knew that was a very bad sign, and it is symbolic and reflective of a very repressive time, and some of that was laid the feet of the cold war."

"The Puritans thought they could simply repress man's sexual nature, and they reaped a whirlwind as a result. Their code of sexual morality -- which became America's -- was nothing more than a set of rules laid down by people who believed that all pleasure was suspect."

"Since time immemorial, youth has set the universal standard of physical beauty, and the reason is simply that a shapely firm young face and body are more attractive sexually and aesthetically than bulges, sags and wrinkles."

"After all the Puritans came to America to escape from persecution and then turned around and started persecuting other people. So I understand that conflict that we have related to play and pleasure and sexuality. And I think what has made my life worthwhile is trying to deal with some of those questions."