Alan Blunt got in touch with me and asked me to put you up here for the rest of the week, to pretend that you're my son. I have to say, you don't look anything like me." "I don't look anything like myself either," Alex said.

Then why don't you go and ---- yourself.

Show Holmes a drop of water and he would deduce the existence of the Atlantic. Show it to me and I would look for a tap. That was the difference between us.

She tried to smile sympathetically, but with her face it wasn't quite possible.

I vividly remember being 14. That was the age when I started to get happy: I started being a writer and stopped being a loser.

I don't know anything!' Tim(Caleb) wailed. He'd never spoken a truer word in his life.

You couldn't trust anyone or anything that belonged to the world of espionage.