Sometimes we have to do a thing in order to find out the reason for it. Sometimes our actions are questions, not answers.

All men are born free: just not for long.

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.

Home's where you go when you run out of homes.

The good pupils are often brilliant, and they keep you on your toes and take you to the limits of your knowledge. The worst pupils provide a unique insight into the criminal mind.

I don't think it is given to any of us to be impertinent to great religions with impunity.

Why did I desert Labour? Total bloody disillusionment. The party was a corpse. It had no ideology, it became detached, old, spineless and needed to go.