I Think We All See Ourselves As

If You Are At A Boys' School, Especially, There Is A Level Of Bravado That You Have To Keep Up Otherwise You'll Get Picked On.

Everythings A Choice. Nobody's Born Good. Nobody's Born Evil. It's Always A Choice.

I Think That Is So Interesting. It Is Le Carré. There Must Be So Much Of Him When He Was Younger. He's An Interesting Character. I Don't Want To Say The Word "passive" Because There Is Something Very Active About The Way He Is Passive, If That Makes Any Sense: The Nature Of His Watching And His Listening Is Active. It Is Always So Alive Because He Is, Essentially, A Spy.

What Le Carré Is So Good At Is Unpicking Something Very Specific About Englishness. That Is Almost Part Of Why I Think He Wrote The Novel. You Can Feel Le Carré's Anger That Someone Who Has Had The Benefits Of An English Education And An English Upbringing Is Using That Privilege To Basically Do The Worst Things Imaginable. There Is An Anger In The Book About That.

One Of The Great Flaws That We All Share Is That We Think Everyone Else Is Cooler, Everyone Else Is Sexier; Everyone Else Has All The Answers. That Was Me Too.