I've always had difficulties with female characters.

Agents of disruption, subversion, sabotage and disinformation tunnelers and smugglers, listeners and forgers, trainers and recruiters and talent spotters and couriers and watchers and seducers, assassins and balloonists, lip readers and disguise artists.

As our Governments spin, lie and lose their credibility, the electorate simply shrugs and looks the other 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.

There are some subjects that can only be tackled in fiction.

There are moments which are made up of too much stuff for them to be lived at the time they occur.

We lie to one another every day, in the sweetest way, often unconsciously. We dress ourselves and compose ourselves in order to present ourselves to one another.