“..each ministry has an allocation of money to spend on projects agreed to by the government. Every Secretary of State is acutely aware that his tenure of office maybe very short, so he picks out a ...”

“When will the Home Office realize that when judges retire, not only are they sent home for the rest of their lives, but the only people they have left to judge are their innocent wives.''So what ar...”

“Sir Hamish Graham has many of the qualities & most of the failings that result from being born to a middle-class Scottish family. He was well educated, hard working & honest, while at the same time...”

“..it must make sense to try & sign up the minister's man, who in the end is the one person who can ensure that you will be awarded the contract. The system seems to work well, & as long as a minist...”

“Are parents always more ambitious for their children than they are for themselves?”

“He was becoming aware that there was no such thing as over-the-top with Lawrence Davenport, as long as you were talking to Lawrence Davenport about Lawrence Davenport.”

“If I tell Dad he has a problem, hell think I hate him. How can I hurt him more? He just lost everything.Wesley shook his head. Not everything. He didnt lose you, he said. At least not yet. If you d...”

“We're here to work, not to make friends,”

“God wants to advise us and stretch out His Almighty hand of help towards us”

“You cant afford anthropomorphic biases when some of the aliens most like us would rather make human hamburgers than peace.”

“Poverty's simplicity has an inexpensive beauty rooted in it, which the rich can never afford to buy”

“You cannot afford to gamble your youth only for fun.”

“When I say it's you I like, I'm talking about that part of you that knows that life is far more than anything you can ever see or hear or touch. That deep part of you that allows you to stand for t...”

“You know Balbec so well - do you have friends in the area?'I have friends wherever there are companies of trees, wounded but not vanquished, which huddle together with touching obstinacy to implore...”

“Things that matter are not easy. Feelings of happiness are easy. Happiness is not. Flirting is easy. Love is not. Saying youre friends is easy. Being friends is not.”