Terry Simpkins

“Wouldn’t we all do better not trying to understand, accepting the fact that no human being will ever understand another, not a wife a husband, a lover a mistress, nor a parent a child?”
― Graham Greene, The Quiet American

“that thirty years of Israel have turned the Palestinians into the new Jews of the earth?”
― John le Carré, The Little Drummer Girl

“He had granted her an early glimpse of the new family she might care to join, knowing that deep down, like most rebels, she was only looking for a better conformity.”
― John le Carré, The Little Drummer Girl

“She was the perfect end to a crappy day, brusque, supercilious and precisely as pleasant as a boil on the sphincter.”
― William McIlvanney, Laidlaw