The more identities a man has, the more they express the person they conceal. - John le Carré

He possessed, however, that persistent inquisitiveness which for journalists and lawyers is an end in itself.

Why is it that so many men of small stature have more courage than men of size?

And gradually it dawned on him, if a dawning can take place in total blackens, that his life had consisted of a run of rehearsals for a play he had failed to take part in. And that what he needed to do from now on, if there was going to be a now on, was abandon his morbid quest for order, and treat himself to a little chaos, on the grounds that while order was demonstrably no substitute for happiness, chaos might open the way to it.