Quotes by : Robert Harris

People perish. Books are immortal.

Power brings a man many luxuries, but a clean pair of hands is seldom among them.

To say she was my girlfriend was absurd: no one the wrong side of thirty has a girlfriend… I suppose....

The destination of the journey could not be altered, only the manner in which one approached it - whether....

Outwardly, I hope, I wear my usual mask of detachment, even irony, for there has never been a situation,however....

Jericho lowered himself carefully to his knees. He covered his eyes and moved his lips like all the others,....

Of all human activities, writing is the one for which it is easiest to find excuses not to begin –....

For them, it was just an ordinary miracle.

Brave words. Easy to write when one was young and death was still skulking over a distant hill somewhere.......

A book unwritten is a delightful universe of infinite possibilities. Set down one word, however, and....