He Has The Gift Of Quiet.

Most People Like To Read About Intrigue And Spies. I Hope To Provide A Metaphor For The Average Reader's Daily Life. Most Of Us Live In A Slightly Conspiratorial Relationship With Our Employer And Perhaps With Our Marriage.

It Is Also The Pardonable Vanity Of Lonely People Everywhere To Assume That They Have No Counterparts.

What Else Has A Journalist To Do These Days, After All, But Report Life's Miseries?

Smiley Was Soaked To The Skin And God As A Punishment Had Removed All Taxis From The Face Of London.

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.