Let's Die Of It Before We're Too

I Made A Series Of Wrong Decisions About Moderately Recent Books, And I've Sold The Rights To Studios For Ridiculous Amounts Of Money And The Films Have Never Been Made. That's The Saddest Thing Of All, Because They're Locked Up And No-one Else Can Make Them.

The Trouble Is, When Professional Spies Go Out Of Their Way To Make A Definitive Statement About One Of Their Own, The Public Tends To Believe The Opposite: Which Puts Us All Back Where We Started.

But I Think The Real Tension Lies In The Relationship Between What You Might Call The Pursuer And His Quarry, Whether It's The Writer Or The Spy.

For Decades To Come The Spy World Will Continue To Be The Collective Couch Where The Subconscious Of Each Nation Is Confessed.

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