“Can't say a body ever gets used to hard work”

“Pender laughed. "Verify? In this day and age? Who cares about verifying anything? It's all about the speed. Who gets there first defines the truth. You know that as well as any man living.”

“It would actually constitute more than a miracle, he realised. It would take divine intervention plus luck, plus some unknown element of cosmic wizardry.”

“All you have to do [to win a Pulitzer Prize] is spend your life running from one awful place to another, write about every horrible thing you see. The civilized world reads about it, then forgets i...”

“Depending on the situation, sometimes you can know a person better in ten minutes than someone you have crossed paths with all your life.”

“Libraries are the mainstays of democracy. The first thing dictators do when taking over a country is close all the libraries, because libraries are full of ideas and differences of opinion, all the...”

“The only power worth a snot is the power to get up after you fall down.”

“So the criminals win, that's what you're saying? For now they do. But it's a long game, Jamison. And I always play for the long game.”

“People don't like to wait for words, they want the words to wait for them.”

“Ive learned that waiting is the most difficult bit, and I want to get used to the feeling, knowing that youre with me, even when youre not by my side.”

“The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.”