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

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.

Painters, writers, musicians are lonely people. So are statesmen and admirals and generals. But then, I added to be fair, so are criminals and lunatics. Let's just say, not to be too flattering, that true individuals are lonely. -- Vivienne Michel

He put down the receiver and looked vaguely at the paper in his hand. It was a rough piece of white wrapping paper. Scrawled in pencil in ragged block letters were the words:HE DISAGREED WITH SOMETHING THAT ATE HIMAnd underneath in brackets:(P.S. WE HAVE PLENTY MORE JOKES AS GOOD AS THIS)

And now he knew that … the conquest of her body, because of the central privacy in her, would have the sweet tang of rape.