Love means having something to betray.

The one thing you can bet is that spying is never over. Spying is like the wiring in this building: It's just a question of who takes it over and switches on the lights. It will go on and on and on.

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

By repetition, each lie becomes an irreversible fact upon which other lies are constructed.

History keeps her secrets longer than most of us. But she has one secret that I will reveal to you tonight in the greatest confidence. Sometimes there are no winners at all. And sometimes nobody needs to lose.

The world of spying is my genre. My struggle is to demystify, to de-romanticise the spook world, but at the same time harness it as a good story.

During the Cold War, we lived in coded times when it wasn't easy and there were shades of grey and ambiguity.