Coming Home From Very Lonely Places, All

More Particularly, Having A Largely German-oriented Education Has Made Me Very Responsive To 19th-century German Literature.

There Is A Terrible Alienation In The Ordinary Man Between What He Is Being Told And What He Secretly Believes.

I Was The British Spy Who Had Come Out Of The Woodwork And Told It How It Really Was, And Anything I Said To The Contrary Only Enforced The Myth. And Since I Was Writing For A Public Hooked On Bond And Desperate For The Antidote, The Myth Stuck.

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.

The Cold War Provided The Perfect Excuse For Western Governments To Plunder And Exploit The Third World In The Name Of Freedom; To Rig Its Elections, Bribe Its Politicians, Appoint Its Tyrants And, By Every Sophisticated Means Of Persuasion And Interference, Stunt The Emergence Of Young Democracies In The Name Of Democracy.