I was the British spy who had come out of the woodwork and told it how it really was, and anything I said to the contrary only enforced the myth. And since I was writing for a public hooked on Bond and desperate for the antidote, the myth stuck.

You can't make war against terror. Terror is a technique of battle. It's a tactic that has been employed since time immemorial. You can conduct clandestine action against terrorists, and that must be done.

Let's die of it before we're too old.

There is a terrible alienation in the ordinary man between what he is being told and what he secretly believes.

For better or worse, I've been involved in the description of political conflict.

The cat sat on the mat is not a story. The cat sat on the other cat’s mat is a story.

I am still making order out of chaos by reinvention.