A sum of money is a leading character in this tale about people, just as a sum of honey might properly be a leading character in a tale about bees.

Smoking is the only honorable form of suicide.

Nietzsche had a little one-liner on how to choose a wife. He said, ''Are you willing to have a conversation with this woman for the next forty years?'' That's how to pick a wife.

I keep losing and regaining my equilibrium, which is the basic plot of all popular fiction. And I myself am a work of fiction.

Human beings will believe in all kinds of things that aren't true, and that's okay. And TV is a part of that.

As in my other works of fiction: All persons living and dead are purely coincidental, and should not be construed. No names have been changed to protect the innocent. Angels protect the innocent as a matter of Heavenly routine.

Generally speaking, espionage offers each spy an opportunity to go crazy in a way he finds irresistible.