I worked for MI6 in the Sixties, during the great witch-hunts, when the shared paranoia of the Cold War gripped the services.
There is a terrible alienation in the ordinary man between what he is being told and what he secretly believes.
Let's die of it before we're too old.
Completing a book, it's a little like having a baby.
I am still making order out of chaos by reinvention.
A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world.