Quotes
Adventure has been defined as somebody else having a difficult time, a long way away. (p. 17)
“You’re talking to yourself.”
“It’s all right. I’m not listening.” (p. 78)
The cat didn’t answer, except possibly by not answering.
p. 534
A lot of my childhood playmates ended up behind bars and I don’t mean as bartenders.
p. 214
It’s indecent and inhuman to put full length mirrors in bathroom doors. They cause narcissism in the young and unhappiness in the old.
p. 147
The ever-present possibility of making a big mistake worried him.
He’d have worried about it more if he’d known that he already had.
p. 89
…I had learnt that the most effective way to spread a story was to tell it to one or two Arabs under a pledge of secrecy.
p. 255
[Re the Piat anti-tank weapon] Like many British inventions, it looked improbable, unwieldy, and unsafe - and it worked.
p. 295
You can only predict things after they’ve happened.
p. 7
The fashion pages have always puzzled me. In my smugly ignorant view, the articles appear to be so full of fluff and nonsense as to make the astrology columns seem insightful by comparison.
p. 173
When the law’s on your side, pound the law. When the facts are on your side, pound the facts. And when neither is on your side, pound the table.
p. 106
There is no such thing as free lunch, and even if there were, there’d be no guarantee against indigestion.
p. 147
