Ideologies have no heart of their own. They're the whores and angels of our striving selves.
John le CarreComing 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.
John le CarreAfter all, if you make your enemy look like a fool, you lose the justification for engaging him.
John le CarreIt's a principle of mine to come into the story as late as possible, and to tell it as fast as you can.
John le CarreLook... we're getting to be old men, and we've spent our lives looking for the weaknesses in one another's systems. I can see through Eastern values just as you can see through our Western ones. Both of us, I am sure, have experienced ad nauseam the technical satisfactions of this wretched war. But now your own side is going to shoot you. Don't you think it's time to recognise that there is as little worth on your side as there is on mine?
John le Carre