There will be no bargaining on values.

If we carry on like this, we're going to end even before we have begun.

Fifty years of foreign policy have unfortunately been demolished by this government, which is irresponsible and, at international level, utterly unreliable.

The message is that he has no respect for the people he is bargaining with. ... He should bargain in good faith and defend that contract to the public.

In Rome, Matt had told her, ‘I knew that if I kept up my playing, we would have a baby.’ That was what music represented to him now: a bargain he had sought with fate. In a less anaemic age, he would have sacrificed virgins or immaculate lambs.

He forestalls death with an orange pill bottle, just a few more weeks, fifty pills at a time.