A Desk Is A Dangerous Place From

To Possess Another Language, Charlemagne Tells Us, Is To Possess Another Soul. German Is Such A Language. Once You Have It In Your Head, You Can Go There Anytime, You Can Close The Door, You Have A Refuge.

Once You've Lived The Inside-out World Of Espionage, You Never Shed It. It's A Mentality, A Double Standard Of Existence.

Sometimes We Have To Do A Thing In Order To Find Out The Reason For It. Sometimes Our Actions Are Questions, Not Answers.

Remember Graham Green's Dictum That Childhood Is The Bank Balance Of The Writer? I Think That All Writers Feel Alienated. Most Of Us Go Back To An Alienated Childhood In Some Way Or Another. I Know That I Do.

If You See The World As Gloomily As I See It, The Only Thing To Do Is Laugh Or Shoot Yourself.