Wars Are Begun By Frightened Men.

I'm A Spy. It's Not Really... I Worked For The Cia 15 Years. The Cover Was I Worked For The Insurance Business.

Fundamentally, I Think Of Myself As A Storyteller, Not A Writer.

Colleges Typically Did Not Tell You That Ninety Percent Of Your Education Came After You Hung The Parchment On The Wall. People Might Ask For A Rebate.

The Most Wounding Insult To An Educated Russian Was To Be Called Nekulturny-uncultured-yet The Same Men Who Sat In The Gilt Boxes At The Moscow State Opera Weeping At The End Of A Performance Of Boris Gudunov Could Immediately Turn Around And Order The Execution Or Imprisonment Of A Hundred Men Without Blinking. A Strange People, Made More Strange By Their Political Philosophy.

About Forty Percent Of The People Vote Democrat. About Forty Percent Vote Republican. Of Those Eighty Percent, Most Wouldn't Change Their Votes If Adolf Hitler Was Running Against Abe Lincoln - Or Against Fdr. . . . That Leaves Twenty Percent Of The People Who Swing Back One Way Or Another . . . The True Independents. . . . That Twenty Percent Controls The Destiny Of The Country.