All men are born free: just not for long.
There's one thing worse than change and that's the status quo.
It's death, that's what I'm suffering from. The systematic encroachment of the big D.
By repetition, each lie becomes an irreversible fact upon which other lies are constructed.
[My novels] introduce levels of intelligence ... moral doubt [and] self-doubt, which may not pertain [to real-world espionage].
The longing we have to communicate cleanly and directly with people is always obstructed by qualifications and often with concern about how our messages will be received.