On one hand we go like hell for every terror cell we can find, we penetrate it, we destroy it. On the other hand, there is a much bigger need for a political solution.

For better or worse, I've been involved in the description of political conflict.

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

I grew up in a completely bookless household. It was my father's boast that he had never read a book from end to end.

What do you think spies are: priests, saints and martyrs? They're a squalid procession of vain fools, traitors too, yes; pansies, sadists and drunkards, people who play cowboys and Indians to brighten their rotten lives.

He has the gift of quiet.

Writing is like walking in a deserted street. Out of the dust in the street you make a mud pie.