DANIEL SILVA

I'm not comfortable around guns.

I grew up reading the classic novels of Cold War espionage, and I studied Russian history and Soviet foreign policy.

I absolutely fell in love with Moscow. It's one of those places where you can't help but trip over history at every turn. It's a city of enormous contradictions. Within a few yards of Lenin's Tomb is some of the most expensive shopping in the world.

The best way to win at a game of chance is to remove chance from the equation.

Russia is classic fascism.

After the fall of the Soviet Union, if you start the clock, then 47 journalists, reporters, cameramen, photographers have been killed in Russia since the fall of communism. That makes it the third most deadly country on Earth to practice journalism. That's not a record to be proud of.

Erudite and entertaining, Max Anderson is the perfect tour guide to the world of art. The Quality Instinct is both educational and enlightening from start to finish, the thinking person's guide to museums. This is a must-read for anyone who wants to truly understand what makes a masterpiece.

So what are you planning to do with the rest of your life? Develop a drinking problem. More Scotch, please.

Jews don't camp...The last time the Jews went camping, they spent forty years wandering in the desert.

I loved September 12th. I loved the way - it's awful but, boy, did I love that day when we all came together. All the bickering stopped. All the partisan, cheap partisan warfare stopped.

After the fall of the Soviet Union, if you start the clock, then 47 journalists, reporters, cameramen, photographers have been killed in Russia since the fall of communism. That makes it the third most deadly country on Earth to practice journalism. That's not a record to be proud of.

I loved September 12th. I loved the way - it's awful but, boy, did I love that day when we all came together. All the bickering stopped. All the partisan, cheap partisan warfare stopped.

I don't have a dark side at all. I just like violence.

I'm a mild-mannered person.

I grew up reading the classic novels of Cold War espionage, and I studied Russian history and Soviet foreign policy.

I'm not comfortable around guns.

I absolutely fell in love with Moscow. It's one of those places where you can't help but trip over history at every turn. It's a city of enormous contradictions. Within a few yards of Lenin's Tomb is some of the most expensive shopping in the world.

Russia is classic fascism.

The best way to win at a game of chance is to remove chance from the equation.

So what are you planning to do with the rest of your life? Develop a drinking problem. More Scotch, please.

The further we are from the last disaster, the closer we are to the next.

Jews don't camp...The last time the Jews went camping, they spent forty years wandering in the desert.

Erudite and entertaining, Max Anderson is the perfect tour guide to the world of art. The Quality Instinct is both educational and enlightening from start to finish, the thinking person's guide to museums. This is a must-read for anyone who wants to truly understand what makes a masterpiece.