Quotes from Daniel Silva

The Europeans thought they could take in millions of immigrants from the poorest regions of the Muslim world and turn them into good little social democrats in a single generation. And look at the results. For the most part the Muslims of Europe are ghettoized and seething with anger.

there was nothing more dangerous, he thought, than a patient man.

Shema, Yisrael, Adonai Eloheinu, Adonai Echad!

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.

Russia is classic fascism.

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

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.

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.

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

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