He was a secret agent, and still alive thanks to his exact attention to the detail of his profession.

“I am a poet in deeds--not often in words.”

“Today we are fighting Communism. Okay. If I'd been alive fifty years ago, the b…”

“My dear boy', Le Chiffre spoke like a father, 'the game of Red Indians is over,…”

“For, or so they whispered, she would take the camp-stool and draw it up close b…”