“When you are brought up as a frozen child, you go on freezing. It wasn...” — John le Carre Quote

“When you are brought up as a frozen child, you go on freezing. It wasn't until I had my four sons, who have brought me immense joy, that I began to thaw. That I realised how utterly extraordinary my childhood was.”

“It's necessary to understand what real intelligence work is. It will never cease. It's absolutely essential that we have it. At its best, it is simply the left arm of healthy governmental curiosity. It brings to a strong government what it needs to know. It's the collection of information, a journalistic job, if you will, but done in secret.”

“A judgment pronounced in accordance with the facts can therefore assign to it an historical place only within that movement of reformation which was brought to a victorious issue by King Josiah.”

“I was born in Nagpur and brought up in Ahmedabad, where my father had a small factory.”

“The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.”