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.

Clusters of bats hung like bunches of withered grapes from the roof and when, from time to time, either Kerim's head or Bond's brushed against them, they exploded twittering into the darkness.

Follow your fate, and be satisfied with it, and be glad not to be a second-hand motor salesman, or a yellow-press journalist, pickled in gin and nicotine, or a cripple - or dead.

Danger, like a third man, was standing in the room.

Did you miss me?’“A little bit, ” she said with a shrug.“You have tears running down your cheeks, ” he said with a grin. “I think you missed me more than a little.

Reading is of course dry work, and further refreshment was called for and consumed.

You have the power to realise your dream. If only you are willing and determined.

You see your reflections in thoughts not things.

God gave you a gift of 86, 400 seconds today. Have you used one to say 'thank you?'

It's sometimes quite astonishing that a single, average life is enough to encompass so much that it's at all possible ever to have any success in one's work here.

The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.

Nothing endures. Not a tree. Not love. Not even death by violence.

Artists aren't really people. And I'm actually 40 per cent papier mache.

You're afraid of heights,'I say. 'How do you survive in the Dauntless compound?' 'I ignore my fear,' he (Four) says. 'When I make decisions, I pretend it doesn't exist.