When you've lost everything, you've got nothing to lose.

Culture clash is terrific drama.

There is no point in asking a man a question until you have established whether he has any reason to lie to you.

The duck swallows the worm, the fox kills the duck, the men shoot the fox, and the devil hunts the men.

Hunger is the best seasoning.

I use a professional researcher in New York who does all the legwork, all that stuff which would take me days and weeks of calling, waiting for people to call back.

We’re all good when it suits us, he used to say: that doesn’t count. It’s when you want so badly to do something wrong—when you’re about to make a fortune from a dishonest deal, or kiss the lovely lips of your neighbor’s wife, or tell a lie to get yourself out of terrible trouble—that’s when you need the rules. Your integrity is like a sword, he would say: you shouldn’t wave it until you’re about to put it to the test.