Michael

“A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world.”
― John le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy

“Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.”
― Honore de Balzac

“And he, like many jaded people, had few pleasures left in life save good food and drink.”
― Honoré de Balzac

“It is always assumed by the empty-headed, who chatter about themselves for want of something better, that people who do not discuss their affairs openly must have something to hide.”
― Honoré de Balzac, Père Goriot