Nothing is invented and perfected at the same time.

There is slow growth, but it is positive slow growth. At the same time, ratios of debt-to-incomes go down. That's a beautiful deleveraging.

Video games are a waste of time for men with nothing else to do. Real brains don't do that.

You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.

The world of spying is my genre. My struggle is to demystify, to de-romanticise the spook world, but at the same time harness it as a good story.