The more identities a man has, the more they express the person they conceal.

The things that are done in the name of the shareholder are, to me, as terrifying as the things that are done - dare I say it - in the name of God.

When the world is destroyed, it will be destroyed not by its madmen but by the sanity of its experts and the superior ignorance of its bureaucrats.

The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous.

I grew up in a completely bookless household. It was my father's boast that he had never read a book from end to end.

But I think the real tension lies in the relationship between what you might call the pursuer and his quarry, whether it's the writer or the spy.

Yet it's not for want of future that I'm here, he thought. It's for want of a present.