My Mental Hands Were Empty, And I

I Always Make It A Rule Never To Look Back. Otherwise, I'd Ask Myself How I Could Write Such Piffle And Live With Myself, Day After Day.

Smoking I Find The Most Ridiculous Of All The Varieties Of Human Behavior And Practically The Only One That Is Entirely Against Nature. Can You Imagine A Cow Or Any Animal Taking A Mouthful Of Smoldering Straw Then Breathing In The Smoke And Blowing It Out Through Its Nostrils?

Everything I Write Has A Precedent In Truth.

Worry Is A Dividend Paid To Disaster Before It Is Due

Le Chiffre Was Serving A Wonderful Purpose, A Really Vital Purpose, Perhaps The Best And Highest Purpose Of All. By His Evil Existence, Which Foolishly I Have Helped To Destroy, He Was Creating A Norm Of Badness By Which, And By Which Alone, An Opposite Norm Of Goodness Could Exist. We Were Privileged, In Our Short Knowledge Of Him, To See And Estimate His Wickedness And We Emerge From The Acquaintanceship Better And More Virtuous Men.