The pharmaceutical corporations are engaged in the systematic corruption of the medical profession, country by country

Wives?" she asked, interrupting him. For a moment, he had assumed she was tuning to the novel. Then he saw her waiting, suspicious eyes, so he replied cautiously, "None active," as if wives were volcanoes.

More particularly, having a largely German-oriented education has made me very responsive to 19th-century German literature.

All men are born free: just not for long.

The one thing you can bet is that spying is never over. Spying is like the wiring in this building: It's just a question of who takes it over and switches on the lights. It will go on and on and on.

Love is whatever you can still betray. Betrayal can only happen if you love.

There was nothing dishonourable in not being blown about by every little modern wind. Better to have worth, to entrench, to be an oak of one's own generation.