John le Carre Quotes

A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world.

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

Remember Graham Green's dictum that childhood is the bank balance of the writer? I think that all writers feel alienated. Most of us go back to an alienated childhood in some way or another. I know that I do.

If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing.

Ideologies have no heart of their own. They're the whores and angels of our striving selves.