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"America has entered one of its periods of historic madness, but this is the worst I can remember."
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"Sometimes I wonder if the human race isn't collectively as mad as a sack of door knobs."
"I think we all have madness in us, it's just that I've realized mine and found a way to let it out."
"An ancient dictum says that when Zeus wanted to destroy someone, he would first drive him mad."
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"A spy, like a writer, lives outside the mainstream population. He steals his experience through bribes and reconstructs it."
"Most people like to read about intrigue and spies. I hope to provide a metaphor for the average reader's daily life. Most of us live in a slightly conspiratorial relationship with our employer and perhaps with our marriage."
"Thank heaven, though, one of the few mistakes I haven't made is to talk about the unwritten book."
"Every writer knows he is spurious; every fiction writer would rather be credible than authentic."
"We have learned in recent years to translate almost all of political life in terms of conspiracy. And the spy novel, as never before, really, has come into its own."
"In the last 15 or 20 years, I've watched the British press simply go to hell. There seems to be no limit, no depths to which the tabloids won't sink. I don't know who these people are but they're little pigs."
"Until we have a better relationship between private performance and the public truth, as was demonstrated with Watergate, we as the public are absolutely right to remain suspicious, contemptuous even, of the secrecy and the misinformation which is the digest of our news."
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