"Many had found, or were finding, that the point of no return was not necessarily the edge of the precipice: it could …"

"She plunged down and kept on going down, driving down to the black floor of the Arctic, driven down by the madly spin…"

"Major Rutledge of the Buffs, Eton and Sandhurst as to intonation, millimetrically tooth-brushed as to moustache, Savi…"

"There are no brave men and cowardly men in the world, my son. There are only brave men. To be born, to live, to die—t…"

"Cruelty and hate and intolerance are the monopoly of no particular race or creed or time. They have been with us sinc…"

"The intolerance of ignorance, not wanting to know – that is the last real frontier on earth."

"Women, I thought: if they fell over a cliff and thought there was company waiting at the bottom, they'd comb their ha…"

"She had the best kind of courage, or maybe the worst kind, the kind that gets you into trouble."

"The first thing I noticed was the gun in his hands, and it wasn't the sort of gun a beginner carries around with him.…"

"Big crime is big business, and big criminals are big businessmen, running their illegal activities with all the metic…"