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.

Fools, most linguists. Damn all to say in one language, so they learn another and say damn all in that.

A dead man is the worst enemy alive, I thought. You can't alter his power over you. You can't alter what you love or owe. And it's too late to ask him for his absolution. He has beaten you all ways.

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.

There is a big difference between fighting the cold war and fighting radical Islam. The rules have changed and we haven't.

People like you should be stopped, Mr. Woodrow,' she mused aloud, with a puzzled shake of her wise head. 'You think you're solving the world's problems but actually you're the problem.

It is also the pardonable vanity of lonely people everywhere to assume that they have no counterparts.