The worst time to feel alone is when you're in a crowd.
You weren’t in any real danger. We knew exactly where you were all the time.
We live in a world with so many dangers that we have to be careful whom we trust.
Writing about magic is harder than writing about spies because you're dealing with something that doesn't really exist.
I vividly remember being 14. That was the age when I started to get happy: I started being a writer and stopped being a loser.
In the old days, spies had done they'd done because they loved their country, because they believed in what they were doing. But he'd never been given a choice. Nowadays, spies weren't employed. They were used.