The more identities a man has, the more they express the person they conceal.

Elections are a Western jerk-off.

For decades to come the spy world will continue to be the collective couch where the subconscious of each nation is confessed.

Survival...is an infinite capacity for suspicion.

It is also the pardonable vanity of lonely people everywhere to assume that they have no counterparts.

Most people like to read about intrigue and spies. I hope to provide a metaphor for the average reader's daily life. Most of us live in a slightly conspiratorial relationship with our employer and perhaps with our marriage.

There is a big difference between fighting the cold war and fighting radical Islam. The rules have changed and we haven't.