I Had Two Experiences Of Criminality: One

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.

It's Part Of A Writer's Profession, As It's Part Of A Spy's Profession, To Prey On The Community To Which He's Attached, To Take Away Information - Often In Secret - And To Translate That Into Intelligence For His Masters, Whether It's His Readership Or His Spy Masters. And I Think That Both Professions Are Perhaps Rather Lonely.

I Move My Lips When I Read -- I'm Painfully Slow -- So I Like Really Good English.

Completing A Book, It's A Little Like Having A Baby.

For Better Or Worse, I've Been Involved In The Description Of Political Conflict.