History Is Moving Pretty Quickly

But I Am Greedy For Life. I Do Too Much Of Everything All The Time. Suddenly One Day My Heart Will Fail. The Iron Crab Will Get Me As It Got My Father. But I Am Not Afraid Of The Crab. At Least I Shall Have Died From An Honourable Disease. Perhaps They Will Put On My Tombstone. 'this Man Died From Living Too Much'.

Luck In All Its Moods Had To Be Loved And Not Feared. Bond Saw Luck As A Woman, To Be Softly Wooed Or Brutally Ravaged, Never Pandered To Or Pursued.

Men Want A Woman Whom They Can Turn On And Off Like A Light Switch.

One Of The Bibles Of My Youth Was 'birds Of The West Indies,' By James Bond, A Well-known Ornithologist, And When I Was Casting About For A Name For My Protagonist I Thought, 'my God, That's The Dullest Name I've Ever Heard,' So I Appropriated It. Now The Dullest Name In The World Has Become An Exciting One.

You Can Get Far In North America With Laconic Grunts. "huh," "hun," And "hi!" In Their Various Modulations, Together With "sure," "guess So," "that So?" And "nuts!" Will Meet Almost Any Contingency.