Blackmail is more effective than bribery.

Treason is very much a matter of habit, Smiley decided.

In every war zone that I've been in, there has been a reality and then there has been the public perception of why the war was being fought. In every crisis, the issues have been far more complex than the public has been allowed to know.

When you're my age and you see a story, you better go for it pretty quickly. I'd just like to get a few more novels under my belt.

I grew up in a completely bookless household. It was my father's boast that he had never read a book from end to end.

A spy, like a writer, lives outside the mainstream population. He steals his experience through bribes and reconstructs it.

The pharmaceutical corporations are engaged in the systematic corruption of the medical profession, country by country