John le Carre

Love is whatever you can still betray. Betrayal can only happen if you love.

You should have died when I killed you.

A committee is an animal with four back legs.

In novelas, sometimes you get the most ridiculous situations, but you make the best of it. But novelas are a very special genre.

The world of spying is my genre. My struggle is to demystify, to de-romanticise the spook world, but at the same time harness it as a good story.

People of the future may suffer not from an absence of choice but from a paralysing surfeit of it. They may turn out to be victims of that peculiarly super-industrial dilemma: overchoice.