"The important thing to know about an assassination or an attempted assassination is not who fired the shot, but who p…"

"Greta is really a splendid cook and there is nothing Swiss about my wines."

"Latimer turned to watch the subject of these reflections carefully, almost lovingly, adjusting the coffee percolator,…"

"Drug addicts, you know, are always very eager to get other people to take drugs too."

"If I had not made the money, someone else would have done so. Not one of those unfortunate creatures would have been …"

"I think that, to begin with, he had intended to kill Dimitrios when he found him, but as he began to get short of mon…"

""Let us hope the bad times are ended for good," [said Mr. Tan.] "Good business for one is good business for all," sai…"

"Hallett drew a deep breath. "Mr. Nilson," he said, "I wish you could tell me something. Why is it that when an appare…"

"It came down to this: if I hadn't been arrested by the Turkish police, I would have been arrested by the Greek police…"

"Power is for the powerful. Let power fall into the hands of the weak and the rest is tyranny."