To Possess Another Language Is To Possess

Each My Book Feels Like My Last Book. And Then I Think, Like A Dedicated Alcoholic, That One More Won't Do Me Any Harm.

But There Is A Big Difference In Working For The West And Working For A Totalitarian State.

I Have A Theory Which I Suspect Is Rather Immoral,' Smiley Went On, More Lightly. 'each Of Us Has Only A Quantum Of Compassion. That If We Lavish Our Concern On Every Stray Cat, We Never Get To The Centre Of Things.

The Secret Intelligence Service I Knew Occupied Dusky Suites Of Little Rooms Opposite St James's Park Tube Station In London.

Most Of Us Live In A Condition Of Secrecy: Secret Desires, Secret Appetites, Secret Hatreds And Relationship With The Institutions Which Is Extremely Intense And Uncomfortable. These Are, To Me, A Part Of The Ordinary Human Condition. So I Don't Think I'm Writing About Abnormal Things. ... Artists, In My Experience, Have Very Little Center. They Fake. They Are Not The Real Thing. They Are Spies. I Am No Exception.