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

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

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

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

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.