John le Carre

"Mundy is reminded of a truth he has learned about people constantly at war with authority: they're also in love with it."

Absolute Friends, p. 317, John le Carré

"When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic."

Dresden James, quoted in Absolute Friends, John Le Carré (p. 396)

"Grow, you little weed, grow!"

Shamus in The Naïve and Sentimental Lover by John le Carré