Egyptologists, skilled in piecing together the papyri of lost civilisations, suddenly discovered that the same talent could be applied to working out the pattern of German radio traffic.
Robert HarrisYou can't ever win the war on crime, or the war on terror. You can't repeal human nature.
Robert HarrisTo say she was my girlfriend was absurd: no one the wrong side of thirty has a girlfriendโฆ I suppose I ought to have realize itโs ominous that forty thousand years of human language had failed to produce a word for our relationship.
Robert HarrisFor me, as I suspect for most people, there comes a point where you have enough. If you've got £20 million, why keep going until you've got £100 million or £1,000 million? Does anyone need another vast yacht or private jet or a house full of gold?
Robert Harris