Terry Hayes quotes:

On a deeper level, I think many stories - especially thrillers - can be a journey to the heart of darkness.

When I was a kid, I went through the whole process of reading great literature and trying to be very widely read.

It doesn't take much to get a high profile in Australia.

When I was 10, my father had to go to the local library to sign a release form stating that I was allowed to borrow books from the adult section.

Computers don't lie, but liars can compute.

I think I can speak with a degree of authority... today, the biggest driving force of movies is pace; God help you if you try to put in a scene that is about character and not plot.

The world doesn't change in front of your eyes, it changes behind your back.

I used to be a journalist.

We all have to take responsibility for what we say and do.

In war, the first casualty is truth.

I went to Australia from England when I was right at that age when you learn to read. It's a very confronting thing, traveling halfway around the world and having a mother who was deeply unhappy at ending up in Australia, so you look for some way to find comfort, I guess, and I found it in books.

Movies are a team sport now, and I want to play singles.

The natural milieu I inhabit is more in epic storytelling.

I've always had a great affection for espionage stories. I like weaving them, and I like thrillers.

A couple of days ago, I saw a rig big enough to haul that tanker. You wanna get outta here? You talk to me.

The interior of the arms dealer's private jet was so ugly it hurt my feelings as well as my eyeballs.

I have heard people say love is weak but they're wrong--love is strong. In nearly everyone it trumps all other things--patriotism and ambition, religion and upbringing. And of every kind of love--the epic and the small, the noble and the base--the one that a parent has for their child is the greatest of them all.

A child who had been introduced to misery in Saudi Arabia, a teenager who went to wage jihad against the Soviets in Afghanistan, a deeply devout Muslim who had graduated with honors in medicine, a man who had fed a stranger to wild dogs in Damascus, a zealot who had dosed three foreigners with smallpox and watched them die in agony, gave thanks to Allah for the blessings that had been bestowed upon him.

If you want to be free, all you have to do is let go.

Nobody's ever been arrested for a murder; they have only ever been arrested for not planning it properly.

Some people say that compassion is the purest form of love because it neither expects nor demands anything in return.