Live and Let Die (James Bond, #2)

by Ian Fleming

SMERSH, short for Smyert Spionam – Death to Spies?

This case isn’t ripe yet. Until it is, our policy with Mr Big is “live and let live”.’ Bond looked quizzically at Captain Dexter. ‘In my job,’ he said, ‘when I come up against a man like this one, I have another motto. It’s “live and let die”.’

I want to be alone with you, with all the time in the world.

Scrawled in pencil in ragged block letters were the words: HE DISAGREED WITH SOMETHING THAT ATE HIM

You start to die the moment you are born. The whole of life is cutting through the pack with death. So take it easy. Light a cigarette and be grateful you are still alive as you suck the smoke deep into your lungs. Your stars have already let you come quite a long way since you left your mother’s womb and whimpered at the cold air of the world.