James Bond 007 : The Authorised Biography

Like all romantics, he was genuinely shocked when his women were revealed as human beings.

The result was that oddity among the James Bond books - The Spy Who Loved Me. Bond says it is the one book he regards with real distaste. Indeed, he feels that he was treated badly over it, and blames Urquhart for getting Fleming involved in the book at a time when he was obviously far from well. (Ian Fleming finally appeared as "co-author" with Vivienne Michel.)

To him all politicians were quite simply "clowns", some more ridiculous or more corrupt than others.