Love is whatever you can still betray. Betrayal can only happen if you love.

Totalitarian states killed with impunity and no one was held accountable. That didn't happen in the West.

You can always count on your family to love you. And to betray you. And then to feel guilty about it.

There are some subjects that can only be tackled in fiction.

I began writing when I was still in the British Foreign Service, and it was then understood that even if you wrote about butterfly collecting, you used another name.

Love is whatever you can still betray. Betrayal can only happen if you love.