I Worked For Mi6 In The Sixties,

I Don't Know Whether It's Age Or Maturity, But I Certainly Find Myself Committed More And More To The Looser Forms Of Western Democracy At Any Price.

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.

It's Death, That's What I'm Suffering From. The Systematic Encroachment Of The Big D.

More Particularly, Having A Largely German-oriented Education Has Made Me Very Responsive To 19th-century German Literature.

By Repetition, Each Lie Becomes An Irreversible Fact Upon Which Other Lies Are Constructed.