I think bankers will always get away with whatever they can get away with.

I think that all writers feel alienated. ... I know that I do. ... I still feel, as I think most creative people do, absolutely isolated.

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.

It's a principle of mine to come into the story as late as possible, and to tell it as fast as you can.

I think bankers will always get away with whatever they can get away with.

The Cold War was over long before it was officially declared dead.

I worked for MI6 in the Sixties, during the great witch-hunts, when the shared paranoia of the Cold War gripped the services.