"You only live twice:
Once when you're born
And once when you look death in the face."
— Ian Fleming (You Only Live Twice)

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

"I am not afraid to keep on living. I am not afraid to walk this world alone. Honey if you stay you'll be forgiven, nothing you can say will set me going home."
— My Chemical Romance

"Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words."
— Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

"I realize that they giggle and I actually laugh, that they show their cleavage and I have none to show, but just so you know, I am also a girl. I'm one of the three wise MEN. And it's gay to think that James Bond is hot."
— John Green

""Names Bond, James Bond.""
— Ian Fleming (Casino Royale)

"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."
— Ian Fleming

"Orbis non sufficit. [The world is not enough]"
— Ian Fleming (On Her Majesty's Secret Service)

"...Goldfinger could not have known that high tension was Bond's natural way of life and that pressure and danger relaxed him."
— Ian Fleming (Goldfinger)

"love one another, but make not a bond of love:
let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup.
give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf
sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone,
even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music."
— Kahlil Gibrán (The Prophet)

"Just as, at least in one religion, accidia is the first of the cardinal sins, so bordom, and particularly the incredible circumstance of waking up bored, was the only vice Bond utterly condemned."
— Ian Fleming (From Russia With Love)

"There was a lot about Kim and J.P. he didn't get.... he was confused by their lack of romance. As a father, he was at times grateful for that missing intensity, but as a man who liked to surprise his wife with flowers, it baffled him. Maybe he was old-fashioned, but to him a couple meant a strong bond, with positive and negative charges constantly arcing between them. He'd never seen Kim and J.P. kiss, let alone argue."
— Stewart O'Nan (Songs for the Missing: A Novel)

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