“Truth can be dispensed with when fantasy dominates.p.63”

“Politicians tend only to like democracy when it is to their personal advantage(From LONE WOLF, p.50)”

“Seeing Blackpool on a dull winter's day rather spoilt my image of what seaside places were like.(From LONE WOLF, p.60)”

“A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.”

“When they ask me to become president of the United States I'm going to say, "Except for Washington D.C.”

“It doesn’t take much to make the daily round with one’s employer work smoothly. A couple of ‘yessirs’ when you know that ‘not on your life’ is the thing to say. A few expressions of doubt about things you’ve spent your life perfecting. Forgetting to make use of the information that negates his hastily formed but deliciously convenient theories. It doesn’t take much but it takes about 98.5 per cent more than I’ve ever considered giving”

“What Douglas had once seen as the attractive over-confidence of youth, now looked more like unyielding selfishness.”