Love means having something to betray.

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.

Most people like to read about intrigue and spies. I hope to provide a metaphor for the average reader's daily life. Most of us live in a slightly conspiratorial relationship with our employer and perhaps with our marriage.

Jesus Christ only had twelve, you know, and one of them was a double.

It's death, that's what I'm suffering from. The systematic encroachment of the big D.

It's a principle of mine to come into the story as late as possible, and to tell it as fast as you can.

There will be no war, but in the pursuit of principle no stone will be left standing.