Our Man in Havana

by Graham Greene

‘You are interested in a person, not in life, and people die or leave us—

When the Chief had guests he dined at home and cooked his own dinner, for no restaurant satisfied his meticulous and romantic standard.

I can’t believe in anything bigger than a home, or anything vaguer than a human being.’

middle-age is the period of sad caution.

‘Oh, pagans can do almost anything, and you are pagans. Lucky you.