If I knocked and waited at every door, who knows what I might miss?

Like all lawyers, I was delighted by gratitude. It happened so rarely.

Funny, when i was a little boy I wanted to be good. But I could never seem to manage it somehow. And if you're not good, the good people will throw you to the wolves. So you might as well just be bad

Truly, as the ancients taught us, there is nothing under the moon, however fine, that is not subject to corruption.

Dominion is a spy novel, a love story, and also I hope gives some sense of the difficulties faced by dissidents under any totalitarian regime: the threat of imprisonment, torture and death the threat to one's family, the terror of being alone in a hostile world.