John le Carre : (4)

" I think, increasingly, despite what we are being told is an ever more open world of communication, there is a terrible alienation in the ordinary man between what he is being told and what he secretly believes. " - John le Carre

" We have learned in recent years to translate almost all of political life in terms of conspiracy. And the spy novel, as never before, really, has come into its own. " - John le Carre

" There was an ITV television production of the second novel I wrote, called ‘Murder of Quality.’ It was a little murder story set in a public school – I’d once taught at Eton, and I used that stuff. " - John le Carre

" Fools, most linguists. Damn all to say in one language, so they learn another and say damn all in that. " - John le Carre