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I'm sort of fascinated by the whole espionage crime thing.

If we are going to conduct espionage in the future, we are going to have to make some changes in the relationship between the intelligence community and the public it serves.

I've always wanted to be a spy, and frankly I'm a little surprised that British intelligence has never approached me.

When you really study espionage movies, or spy movies, the beginnings are really set up to have, like, an amazing bit of action, but at the moment you're watching it, you have no idea why or what it's about.

I don't know if the European Union contributes a great deal to espionage. At the union level, they talk about commerce and privacy. But to keep citizens safe, that remains a responsibility back in national capitals.

I've been a spy for almost all of my adult life - I don't like being in the spotlight.

We have some material on spying by a major government on the tech industry. Industrial espionage.

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.

Some people think my father was a spy, because of working for that government agency in Vietnam, but he can't find his car keys, much less keep a national secret.

From infancy on, we are all spies; the shame is not this but that the secrets to be discovered are so paltry and few.