You can’t really legislate for the decisions that your heart makes.

What le Carré is so good at is unpicking something very specific about Englishness. That is almost part of why I think he wrote the novel. You can feel le Carré's anger that someone who has had the benefits of an English education and an English upbringing is using that privilege to basically do the worst things imaginable. There is an anger in the book about that.

You've got to do something, even if it's just to kick-start the day. I use music. And running.

Stay hungry, stay young, stay foolish, stay curious, and above all, stay humble because just when you think you got all the answers, is the moment when some bitter twist of fate in the universe will remind you that you very much don't.

Don’t judge people on who they used to be. Allow them to be who they are now.

I feel as though the cardboard box of my own reality has been flattened and blown open. Now I can see the edge of the world.

I’m not a big fan of the class system, to be honest. It feels ugly to me. If you’ve got something to say and the work is good, it doesn’t matter where you come from