“I've had nothing to do with the intelligence world since I left it, in...” — John le Carre Quote

“I've had nothing to do with the intelligence world since I left it, in any shade or variety.”

“I made an awful mess of my first marriage. It was hard to live with me being me. I was so abnormal. I mean, most writers struggle. I hadn't struggled. I couldn't suddenly go down to the PEN Club and behave like a normal human being, because most of those guys were struggling to make a couple of thousand pounds a year.”

“I taught principally German language and literature at Eton. But any master with private pupils must be prepared to teach anything they ask for. That can be as diverse as the early paintings of Salvador Dali or how bumblebees manage to fly.”

“There is no reason and no way that a human mind can keep up with an artificial intelligence machine by 2035.”

“I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence.”

“There are only two races on this planet - the intelligent and the stupid.”