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

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.

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.

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

...Goldfinger could not have known that high tension was Bond's natural way of life and that pressure and danger relaxed him.

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