But there is a big difference in working for the West and working for a totalitarian state.

After all, if you make your enemy look like a fool, you lose the justification for engaging him.

I mean, you can't be less ruthless than the opposition simply because your government's policy is benevolent, can you now?

There's one thing worse than change and that's the status quo.

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

The things that are done in the name of the shareholder are, to me, as terrifying as the things that are done - dare I say it - in the name of God.

Once you've lived the inside-out world of espionage, you never shed it. It's a mentality, a double standard of existence.