Life Was To Be A Search, Or

I Think I'm In The Same Mood As Ever, But In Some Ways More Mature. I Guess You Could Say That, At 65, When You've Seen The World Shape Up As I Have, There Are Only Two Things You Can Do: Laugh Or Kill Yourself.

I Think Bankers Will Always Get Away With Whatever They Can Get Away With.

The World Of Spying Is My Genre. My Struggle Is To Demystify, To De-romanticise The Spook World, But At The Same Time Harness It As A Good Story.

When You're My Age, You Have The Feeling Sometimes That You're Seeing The Show Come Round Again.

Every Writer Knows He Is Spurious; Every Fiction Writer Would Rather Be Credible Than Authentic.