I have teken refuge in the doctrine that advises one not to seek tranquility in certainty but in permanently suspended judgement.

Sometimes limbo is a tolerable place to be stuck.

I stood there in the kitchen, watching her staring across the meadow still searching for her nemesis and I thought, suddenly, that this is all our lives - this is the one fact that applies to us all, that makes us what we are, our common mortality, our common humanity. One day someone is going to come and take us away: you don't need to have been a spy, I thought, to feel like this.

There is a disconnect between the film Bond and the literary Bond which is their contemporaneity. I don't suffer from that.

I tend to admire dead people more than the living. All too often, human reality diminishes the glowing reputation.

I have teken refuge in the doctrine that advises one not to seek tranquility in certainty but in permanently suspended judgement.

We keep a journal to entrap that collection of selves that forms us, the individual human being.