348 Quotes by John le Carré

The pharmaceutical corporations are engaged in the systematic corruption of the medical profession, country by country

I've got more than one string to my bow, and I thought I'd give this one a twang.

The religious cant that will send American troops into battle is perhaps the most sickening aspect of this surreal war-to-be. Bush has an arm-lock on God. And God has very particular political opinions. God appointed America to save the world in any way that suits America. God appointed Israel to be the nexus of America's Middle Eastern policy, and anyone who wants to mess with that idea is a) anti-Semitic, b) anti-American, c) with the enemy, and d) a terrorist.

How Bush and his junta succeeded in deflecting America's anger from bin Laden to Saddam Hussein is one of the great public relations conjuring tricks of history. But they swung it. A recent poll tells us that one in two Americans now believe Saddam was responsible for the attack on the World Trade Centre.

A good writer is an expert on nothing except himself. And on that subject, if he is wise, he holds his tongue.

On one hand we go like hell for every terror cell we can find, we penetrate it, we destroy it. On the other hand, there is a much bigger need for a political solution.

There is no such thing as a secure writer: every novel is an impossible mountain.

After all, if you make your enemy look like a fool, you lose the justification for engaging him.

I can't think of anybody worse to live with.