It has been the dream of very few men to rule the entire world. - Dr. Grief

Alex decided he’d had enough. He put down his knife. “All right,” he said. “You’ve made it pretty clear that you don’t want to work with me. Well, that’s fine. Because I don’t want to work with you either. And for what it’s worth, nobody would ever believe you were my mom because no mom would ever behave like you.” “Alex…,” Carver began. “Forget it! I’m going back to London. And if you’re Mr. Byrne asks why, you can tell him I didn’t like the jelly, so I went home to get some jam.

There's a name for people with an interest in the moon," Alex said. "They're called lunatics.

In the old days, spies had done they'd done because they loved their country, because they believed in what they were doing. But he'd never been given a choice. Nowadays, spies weren't employed. They were used.

There's a dream world that we visit sometimes and that's how we found out who we are.

You must have been going very fast." "I was, until I hit the fence.

He hadn't done anything. He hadn't needed to. Just being there was enough.