“He shrugged his shoulders to shift the pain of failure---the pain that is so much greater than the pleasure of success.”

“Each dark conjecture came and for a moment settled like a vulture on Bond's shoulder and croaked into his ear that he had been a blind fool.”

“In angry protest the red telephone splintered the silence.”

“They want us dead,' said Bond calmly. 'So we have to stay alive.”

“Champagne and Benzedrine! Never again.”

“And people with obsessions, reflected Bond, were blind to danger.”

“I didn't feel physically sick. But mentally. My mind was twisting in so many ways. (...) We once saw a documentary on migraines. One of the men interviewed used to fall on his knees and bang his he...”

“One gets headaches, because he gives headache to others.”

“His head .. it exploded. As if someone had scooped out his brains and put a hand grenade in his skull.”

“And then a throb hits you on the left ide of the head so hard that your head bobs to the right...There's no way that came from inside your head, you think. That's no metaphysical crisis. God just p...”

“Pain is not the same as suffering. Left to itself, the body discharges pain spontaneously, letting go of it the moment that the underlying cause is healed. Suffering is pain that we hold on to. It ...”

“In pleasant peace and security How suddenly the soul in a man begins to die He shall look up above the stalled oxen Envying the cruel falcon, And dig under the straw for a stone To bruise himself on.”

“It is amazing, though, what pains your subconscious will undergo in achieve sustainable peace.”