A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world.

- John Le Carre

The cat sat on the mat is not a story. The cat sat on the other cat’s mat is a story.

- John Le Carre

In every operation there is an above the line and a below the line. Above the line is what you do by the book. Below the line is how you do the job.

- John Le Carre

The fact that you can only do a little is no excuse for doing nothing.

- John Le Carre

I think the greatest single enemy is the misuse of information, the perversion of truth in the hands of terribly skillful people.

- John Le Carre

When the world is destroyed, it will be destroyed not by its madmen but by the sanity of its experts and the superior ignorance of its bureaucrats.

- John Le Carre

Multi-billion-dollar multinational corporations view the exploitation of the world's sick and dying as a sacred duty to their shareholders.

- John Le Carre

By repetition, each lie becomes an irreversible fact upon which other lies are constructed.

- John Le Carre

The only reward for love is the experience of loving.

- John Le Carre