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.

It's the oldest question of all, George. Who can spy on the spies?

To possess another language is to possess another soul.

A committee is an animal with four back legs.

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

By the age of 9 or 10, I knew that I had to cut my own cloth and make my own way.

Tyranny is like the electric wiring in an old house. A tyrant dies, the new tyrant takes possession, and all he has to do is drop the switch.