“I was quite able at the insignificant work I did in MI6, but absolutel...” — John le Carre Quote

“I was quite able at the insignificant work I did in MI6, but absolutely dysfunctional in my domestic life. I had no experience of fatherhood. I had no example of marital bliss or the family unit.”

“The merit of 'The Spy Who Came in from the Cold,' then - or its offence, depending where you stood - was not that it was authentic, but that it was credible.”

“'The Spy Who Came in from the Cold' was the work of a wayward imagination brought to the end of its tether by political disgust and personal confusion.”

“I think I made $55 a week, and it was bliss... I was doing theater. It was all I ever wanted to do. It was so much fun, and you got paid for it, and you met people, and it's the greatest education in the world. And in my little Greenbrier station wagon, I felt very much like a troubadour.”

“Nothing is more important than reconnecting with your bliss. Nothing is as rich. Nothing is more real.”

“Where ignorance is bliss it's foolish to borrow your neighbor's newspaper.”