There was nothing dishonourable in not being blown about by every little modern wind. Better to have worth, to entrench, to be an oak of one's own generation.

I've always had difficulties with female characters.

To possess another language is to possess another soul.

It's a principle of mine to come into the story as late as possible, and to tell it as fast as you can.

[My novels] introduce levels of intelligence ... moral doubt [and] self-doubt, which may not pertain [to real-world espionage].

Multi-billion-dollar multinational corporations view the exploitation of the world's sick and dying as a sacred duty to their shareholders.

All men are born free: just not for long.