THE EXHAUSTION OF EMPATHY

'Always George's problem, seeing both sides of everything. Wore him out.'
John le Carré, A Legacy of Spies, p.341. 

MEMORY

'When I write a note my memory stores the thought.'
John le Carre, The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories from My Life, p.209. 

EVIL

'...the evil is not in the system, but in the man.'

John le Carre, The Secret Pilgrim, p.374.