“His headache was still sitting over his right eye as if it had been nailed there.”

“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.”

“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.”

“The constant reprimands made me hyperconscious of my own performance, and so instead of getting rid of self, I had become embedded in the egoism I was supposed to transcend. Now I was beginning to ...”

“Silence is the mother of truth.”

“Silence is a powerful tool.”