Remember Graham Green's dictum that childhood is the bank balance of the writer? I think that all writers feel alienated. Most of us go back to an alienated childhood in some way or another. I know that I do.

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

It's easy to forget what intelligence consists of: luck and speculation. Here and there a windfall, here and there a scoop.

Love is whatever you can still betray. Betrayal can only happen if you love.

For decades to come the spy world will continue to be the collective couch where the subconscious of each nation is confessed.

A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world.

I am still making order out of chaos by reinvention.