“He knew how intelligent men could be broken by the stupidity of their superiors, how weeks of patient work night and day could be cast aside by such a man”

“Give a man a car of his own and he leaves humility and common sense behind him in the garage.”

“He had the nerve not to drink in a University where you proved your manhood by being drunk most of your first year.”

“one of those world builders who do othing but destroy,”

“Afterwards Smiley always thought of that interview as a fan dance; a calculated progression of disclosures, each revealing different parts of a mysterious entity. Finally Steed-Asprey, who seemed t...”

“society is unconcerned with the aftermath of sensation.”

“First reach your target in your mind, then reaching your target in reality will just be a formality!”

“To dream in doctrines, how tidy!”

“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection”

“I read once that the ancient Egyptians had fifty words for sand & the Eskimos had a hundred words for snow. I wish I had a thousand words for love, but all that comes to mind is the way you move ag...”

“Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze. ”

“When everything is a law, nothing is a law.”

“Accumulating orthodoxy makes it harder year-by-year to be a Christian than it was in Jesus' day.”

“No man is such a legalist as the good Secularist.”