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I think Morse's thing about being a poor policeman but a good detective is a very good description of him.

I chose to deal with the science of cryptography. Cryptography began in mathematics. Codes were developed, even from Caesar's time, based on number theory and mathematical principles. I decided to use those principles and designed a work that is encoded.

We were using a hand-held camera to film the scene when Morse collapses. The camera wouldn't start. Three times they said action and it still wouldn't work. To this day, they still don't know what was wrong.

During the Cold War, we lived in coded times when it wasn't easy and there were shades of grey and ambiguity.

I learned nothing while I was in school.

Telegraphs are machines for conveying information over extensive lines with great rapidity.

I invented the historical spy novel.

But for me, it was a code I myself had invented! Yet I could not read it.