“When you're my age and you see a story, you better go for it pretty quickly. I'd just like to get a few more novels under my belt.”
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A spy, like a writer, lives outside the mainstream population. He steals his experience through bribes and reconstructs it.
If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing.
The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous. But neither, in my experience, do we ever reach a plane of detachment regarding our parents, however wise and old we may become. To pretend otherwise is to cheat.
By the age of 9 or 10, I knew that I had to cut my own cloth and make my own way.
