The quiet American

I was in no mood to fight with him, but at that moment I would not have minded if he had beaten me unconscious

‘You haven’t reached it yet. I doubt if you ever will. And I’m not likely to change either—except with death,’ he added merrily.

I’m doing all the talking,’ Pyle said. ‘I don’t know how it is, but somehow this evening …’

Perhaps I would like your father,’ I said. ‘I’m an isolationist too.’

My father’s an isolationist.’

‘Perhaps I would like your father,’ I said. ‘I’m an isolationist too.’

Sometimes we have a kind of love for our enemies and sometimes we feel hate for our friends.’

Distraction?’

‘We all have our private worries, Vigot,’ I carefully explained

Sooner or later,’ Heng said, and I was reminded of Captain Trouin speaking in the opium house, ‘one has to take sides. If one is to remain human

Innocence is a kind of insanity.’

A two-hundred-pound bomb does not discriminate