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.
I worked for MI6 in the Sixties during the great witch-hunts when the...
In every war zone that I've been in there has been a reality and then there...
During the Cold War we lived in coded times when it wasn't easy and there...
The Cold War was over long before it was officially declared dead.
My definition of a decent society is one that first of all takes care of its...
But I think the real tension lies in the relationship between what you might...
Until we have a better relationship between private performance and the...
If there is one eternal truth of politics it is that there are always a...
The Secret Intelligence Service I knew occupied dusky suites of little rooms...
It's part of a writer's profession as it's part of a spy's profession to...
The two most misused words in the entire English vocabulary are love and...
The first crocodile I ever caught was at nine years of age and it was a...
Time in general has always been a central obsession of mine - what it does...
Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the...
If there is anything I would do differently in my life it is that I would...
What though youth gave love and roses Age still leaves us friends and wine.
In a spiritually sensitive culture then it might well be that age is...
The age we live in is a busy age in which knowledge is rapidly advancing...
We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem...
Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.