There Are Some Subjects That Can Only

The More Identities A Man Has, The More They Express The Person They Conceal.

If There Is One Eternal Truth Of Politics, It Is That There Are Always A Dozen Good Reasons For Doing Nothing.

It Was A Charming Fantasy Of Romantics That The Spies Would Stop Spying, That Political Conflict Would End And Politicians Would Tell The Truth. Unfortunately That Has Not Been The Case.

It's Part Of A Writer's Profession, As It's Part Of A Spy's Profession, To Prey On The Community To Which He's Attached, To Take Away Information - Often In Secret - And To Translate That Into Intelligence For His Masters, Whether It's His Readership Or His Spy Masters. And I Think That Both Professions Are Perhaps Rather Lonely.

I Taught Principally German Language And Literature At Eton. But Any Master With Private Pupils Must Be Prepared To Teach Anything They Ask For. That Can Be As Diverse As The Early Paintings Of Salvador Dali Or How Bumblebees Manage To Fly.