Never Trade A Secret, You'll Always Get

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

When You're My Age And You See A Story, You Better Go For It Pretty Quickly. I'd Just Like To Get A Few More Novels Under My Belt.

[my Novels] Introduce Levels Of Intelligence ... Moral Doubt [and] Self-doubt, Which May Not Pertain [to Real-world Espionage].

...also Took For Granted That Secret Services Were The Only Real Measure Of A Nations Political Health, The Only Real Expression Of Its Subconscious.

Survival...is An Infinite Capacity For Suspicion.