Every man has his personal devil waiting for him somewhere.
In moments of crisis our thoughts do not run consecutively but rather sweep over us in waves or intuition and experience ...
God is in his Heaven and the first night was a wow.
Do you know what love is? I'll tell you: it is whatever you can still betray.
He has the gift of quiet.
With people you see in them what you already know.
Some people are agents from birth, Monsignors -- he told them -- appointed to the work by the period of history, the place, and their own natural dispositions. In their cases, it was simply a question...
She's become a Russian again, he thought. When something works, she's grateful. When it doesn't work, it's life.
Like every novelist, I fantasise about film. Novelists are not equipped to make a movie, in my opinion. They make their own movie when they write: they're casting, they're dressing the scene, they're...
I don't know whether it's age or maturity, but I certainly find myself committed more and more to the looser forms of Western democracy at any price.
Thing at
He asked, in a more tentative tone, What’s the
SIS, the Secret Intelligence Service, also known as MI6, also has no executive powers and operates abroad on CIA lines, but with a tiny percentage of the budget and a tiny percentage of the personnel.
Everyone who is not happy must be shot.
Some people keep canaries, some people join the Party,
It’s as well to begin as one intends to continue, isn’t it?
Haydon had found his charm again. He could do that at the drop of a hat. He drew you and he repelled you. I remember that exactly. He danced all ways for you, playing your emotions against each other...
This is a war, Lemas replied. It's graphic and unpleasant because it's fought on a tiny scale, at close range; fought with a wastage of innocent life sometimes, I admit. But it's nothing, nothing at a...
The opposite of love is not hate but apathy
He had never guessed it was possible to be frightened for so long.