Coming home from very lonely places, all of us go a little mad: whether from great personal success, or just an all-night drive, we are the sole survivors of a world no one else has ever seen.

I think the greatest single enemy is the misuse of information, the perversion of truth in the hands of terribly skillful people.

Survival...is an infinite capacity for suspicion.

Everyone who is not happy must be shot.

I've never been able to write a book without one very strong character in my rucksack.

In every operation there is an above the line and a below the line. Above the line is what you do by the book. Below the line is how you do the job.

There are moments which are made up of too much stuff for them to be lived at the time they occur.