Fiction is a kind of compassion-generating machine that saves us from sloth....
I started out in engineering. I was a geophysical engineer. Throughout the...
I turned 54 this year and I find myself feeling like I'm in a bit of a race...
If you think of a work of fiction as a kind of scale model of the world then...
Whatever your supposed politics are - left right - if you put it in a human...
The best thing that ever happened to me is that nothing happened in writing....
It's funny with fiction - once you cut something it hasn't happened anymore.
The word 'funny' is a bit like the word 'love' - we don't have enough words...
The universal human laws - need love for the beloved fear hunger periodic...
The scariest thought in the world is that someday I'll wake up and realize...
I wasn't privy to all of the intelligence that was coming in about Guatemala...
Foreign Ministry guys don't become agents. Party officials the Foreign...
We had periodic crises in this country when the technical intelligence didn't...
The resistance of policy-makers to intelligence is not just founded on an...
There are so many things a large intelligence espionage organization can do...
Our Soviet espionage efforts had virtually never or had very seldom...
In my professional work with the Agency by the late '70s I had come to...
I found that our Soviet espionage efforts had virtually never or had very...
I am not a member of the CIA or any other intelligence agency.