The good pupils are often brilliant, and they keep you on your toes and take you to the limits of your knowledge. The worst pupils provide a unique insight into the criminal mind.

When you're my age and you see a story, you better go for it pretty quickly. I'd just like to get a few more novels under my belt.

The more identities a man has, the more they express the person they conceal.

Life was to be a search, or nothing! But it was the fear that it was nothing that drove me forward. Every encounter was an encounter with myself.

I think the greatest single enemy is the misuse of information, the perversion of truth in the hands of terribly skillful people.

...also took for granted that secret services were the only real measure of a nations political health, the only real expression of its subconscious.

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