“Bond reflected that good Americans were fine people and that most of them seemed to come from Texas.”

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

“American women drove hard bargains and the ended up looking the worst for it. The few natural American women left were mostly in Texas and Louisiana.”

“Americans were most likely good people...the only thing wrong with them, David thought, was that they spoke English very badly.”

“Good weather will do this to people, bond them in their gratefulness.”

“In the middle of the swinging sixties people in England were apparently under some sort of obligation to have a good time and most of them didn't. A Russian and an American walked about in space to no one's particular advantage. The Beatles received their British Empire medals and, so it was said, smoked cannabis in the lavatories at Buckingham Palace. American aeroplanes were bombing Vietnam, but no one seemed to talk about the nuclear holocaust any more.”