"In Abacha Reef Home, you were kept as safe as humanly possible—assuming it is safe to be bored out of your wits."

"“The real question you should be asking is quite different: Why is Section able to function at a time when the larger…"

"Controlling the leakage of information is always the key to success in counterintelligence."

"I wondered how he could be so trusting of the universe to lie asleep in the middle of it."

"I prayed that, for once, the predictions of the brassheads would turn out to be as hollow as the ravings of forgotten…"

"“I want to find out who is supplying items to a government agency. Is there an easy way to find out?” The librarian f…"

"The power of prime numbers: the key to the new world and the solution to the mysteries of the infinite."

"The Mother Superior came forward and put her hand out to me. She was as tall as me, her stony-green eyes highly dilat…"

"In a profound sense every man has two halves to his being: he is not one person so much as two persons trying to act …"

"We suffer from a hubris of the mind. We have abolished superstition of the heart only to install a superstition of th…"