I find a difference in British spy fiction and American spy fiction. In the American version, it's more militaristic, partly because the CIA has… — Charles Cumming Copy Share Image
St. John of the Cross points out that the divine music can best be heard in solitude and silence. The sonorous music is not… — Charles Cumming Copy Share Image
Worrying about how you'll be remembered is pointless. Better to try to live your life in such a way that people will respect you… — Charles Cumming Copy Share Image
I'm fascinated by the journey that an intelligent and an ambitious woman makes in the professional world in contrast to the journey that a… — Charles Cumming Copy Share Image
As we get older, life becomes very complicated in terms of concessions we have to make. — Charles Cumming Copy Share Image
The first thing you should know about people is that you don’t know the first thing about them. — Charles Cumming Copy Share Image
“I am not anti-American,' he said. 'I just despise the current American administration. I despair that Bush has made ordinary, decent people all over the world think twice about what was once, and still could be again, a great country, when what happened on September 11th should have made ordinary, decent people all over the world embrace America as never… — Charles Cumming Copy Share
“He believed in the unarguable notion that if a young person is lucky enough to read the right books at the right time in… — Charles Cumming Copy Share Image
