“To be compromised you need to have a stake in things, you need to have something to lose and something to gain. You have to be risking yourself, not all the time, but enough of the time to be weighing… — Patrick McGuinness Copy Share Image
“Kafka’s The Castle came to mind, a book I had not read but that fell into that category of literature that culture reads on… — Patrick McGuinness Copy Share Image
“In diplomacy there are two kinds of problems: small ones and large ones. The small ones will go away by themselves and the large… — Patrick McGuinness Copy Share Image
“To be compromised you need to have a stake in things, you need to have something to lose and something to gain. You have… — Patrick McGuinness Copy Share Image
“Leo had once joked about writing an allegorical sketch where Parody packed its bags, shut up shop and put a sign on the door… — Patrick McGuinness Copy Share Image
“Life in a police state magnifies the small mercies that it leaves alone until they become disproportionate to their significance; at the same time… — Patrick McGuinness Copy Share Image
“He was a fundamentalist – a pragmatic one perhaps, but a fundamentalist nonetheless, for whom all the failures of the ideal were due to… — Patrick McGuinness Copy Share Image
“The waiter came over to ask if all is delicious. As we have not yet ordered, it is certainly the perfect time to enquire.” — Patrick McGuinness Copy Share Image
