From infancy on, we are all spies; the shame is not this but that the secrets to be discovered are so paltry and few.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
My siblings and I had this theory that my parents were spies.
There will always be spies. We have to have them. Without them we wouldn't have got Osama bin Laden - it took us years, but it happened.
We knew we were talking about spies. I knew he knew I knew. I was digging my own grave.
Since real spies are so good, you never really know what actual spying is. But I do think spying is a lot more dangerous than we are led to believe.
I could have been a top notch spy. People confess the most amazing secrets to me, even when I am not fishing for those nuggets. I must look trustworthy because I sit there with a video camera or a tape recorder while the stories pour out.
It's a thrilling world, and people really like stories about secrets, which is the essence of a spy drama.
I feel really lucky that I grew up pretending to be a spy for my whole childhood.
I wasn't a spy. I'd have been spotted in five seconds. Yes, I was in intelligence, but that covered a multitude of things.
I've known several spies who have wanted to become novelists. And novelists who became spies, of course.
Isn't it astonishing that all these secrets have been preserved for so many years just so we could discover them!