Ben MacIntyre

“What is the use of living if you cannot eat cheese and pickles?”

“In a word, adventure to Chapman is the breath of life. Given adventure he has the courage to achieve the unbelievable.”

“The policemen agreed they were living with a most peculiar fellow. One moment he was reading classical literature in the original French and quoting Tennyson, and the next he would be discussing the best way to blow up a train.”

“Well you stick the dynamite in the keyhole and you don't damage the safe, only sometimes you put a little too much in and blow the safe door up, but other times you're lucky and the safe just comes open. Thus the scion of a great banking dynasty learned how to rob a bank.”