It Is Also The Pardonable Vanity Of

If You See The World As Gloomily As I See It, The Only Thing To Do Is Laugh Or Shoot Yourself.

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

We Have Learned In Recent Years To Translate Almost All Of Political Life In Terms Of Conspiracy. And The Spy Novel, As Never Before, Really, Has Come Into Its Own.

When It's Going Well [writing] Goes Terribly Fast. It Isn't At All Surprising To Write A Chapter In A Day, Which For Me Is About Twenty-two Pages. When It's Going Badly, It Isn't Really Going Badly; It's Just The Beginning.

I Can't Think Of Anybody Worse To Live With.