Look... we're getting to be old men, and we've spent our lives looking for the weaknesses in one another's systems. I can see through Eastern values just as you can see through our Western ones. Both of us, I am sure, have experienced ad nauseam the technical satisfactions of this wretched war. But now your own side is going to shoot you. Don't you think it's time to recognise that there is as little worth on your side as there is on mine?
John le CarreI think that where I've watched a movie go wrong, it's usually because the dread committee has been interfering with it.
John le CarreWriting is like walking in a deserted street. Out of the dust in the street you make a mud pie.
John le Carre