The world doesn’t change in front of your eyes, it changes behind your back.

The interior of the arms dealer’s private jet was so ugly it hurt my feelings as well as my eyeballs.

People say love is weak, but they’re wrong: love is strong. In nearly everyone it trumps all other things – patriotism and ambition, religion and upbringing. And every kind of love – the epic and...

There was one thing the experience had taught him. He said he’d learned that when millions of people, a whole political system, countless numbers of citizens who believed in God, said they were going to...

nobody’s ever been arrested for a murder; they have only ever been arrested for not planning it properly.

The last vestiges of consciousness tell her she has just witnessed her own murder, all she ever was and hoped to be is gone.

We wanted a labour force, but human beings came.

In war, the first casualty is truth.