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

You can't make war against terror. Terror is a technique of battle. It's a tactic that has been employed since time immemorial. You can conduct clandestine action against terrorists, and that must be done.

To possess another language is to possess another soul.

I mean, I'm in the business of storytelling, not message making.

Gerald Westerby, he told himself. You were present at your birth. You were present at your several marriages and at some of your divorces, and you will certainly be present at your funeral. High time, in our considered view, that you were present at certain other crucial moments in your history.

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

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