Graham Greene, Our Man in Havana

"Childhood was the germ of all mistrust. You were cruelly joked upon and then you cruelly joked. You lost the remembrance of pain through inflicting it."

"You should dream more, Mr. Wormold. Reality in our century is not something to be faced."

"He began to realize what the criminal class knows so well, the impossibility of explaining anything to a man with power."

"It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes."

"I don't care a damn about men who are loyal to the people who pay them, to organizations... I don't think even my country means all that much. There are many countries in our blood, aren't there, but only one person. Would the world be in the mess it is if we were loyal to love and not to countries?"