236 Quotes by Robert Harris

This might be a case of imperfect self-defense, but definitely not first-degree murder.

The more people we have down here, the better we can search areas and get people out.

It was a minor injury. He was running when it happened. We took him to hospital in South Africa because we just wanted to make sure he was okay, and that done, he is now back to work.

Social mores change all the time. In the mid-1970s, it would've been astonishing, say, to see two men holding hands in the streets. And the attitude to having a fling with a girl, or whatever, was quite different then.

I like to take people you wouldn't really think people would write novels about: an aqueduct engineer, a code-breaker, a hedge-fund manager. It's in those sorts of lives that I find more fascination than in a CIA operative or a Marine or something like that.

If you're living well below the poverty line, do you have a credit card to pay to stay in a motel or hotel for a few days? They were between a rock and a hard place.

In my opinion, they didn't have anything. We felt it shouldn't have gone to trial in the first place.

The financial markets tend to be just a backdrop for a novel, for a heist or something that isn't necessarily integral to it. On the whole, I don't think the financial world has been well served by novels.

Cicero most reminds me of Harold Wilson. Both men knew how to keep the show on the road.