John Le
John Le
chaotic growing instinct lead performer strength weakness
If you're growing up in a chaotic world without reason, your instinct is to become a performer and control the circumstances around you. You lead from weakness into strength; you have an undefended back.
british choose leak member name pleases quite secret services state
In the '60s - and right up to the present day - the identity of a member of the British Secret Services was and is, quite rightly, a state secret. To divulge it is a crime. The Services may choose to leak a name when it pleases them.
death suffering systematic
It's death, that's what I'm suffering from. The systematic encroachment of the big D.
war long cold
The Cold War was over long before it was officially declared dead.
thinking given blasphemy
I don't think it is given to any of us to be impertinent to great religions with impunity.
people secret secretive
People are very secretive - secret even from themselves.
country vaccines systematic
The pharmaceutical corporations are engaged in the systematic corruption of the medical profession, country by country
believe two america
How Bush and his junta succeeded in deflecting America's anger from bin Laden to Saddam Hussein is one of the great public relations conjuring tricks of history. But they swung it. A recent poll tells us that one in two Americans now believe Saddam was responsible for the attack on the World Trade Centre.
wise tongue experts
A good writer is an expert on nothing except himself. And on that subject, if he is wise, he holds his tongue.
writing mountain impossible
There is no such thing as a secure writer: every novel is an impossible mountain.
order chaos stills
I am still making order out of chaos by reinvention.
thinking i-can
I can't think of anybody worse to live with.
christian real lying
The greatest threat to mankind comes from the renunciation of individual scruple in favor of institutional denominators. . . . Real heroism lies, as it always will, not in conformity or even patriotism, but in acts of solitary moral courage. Which, come to think of it, is what we used to admire in our Christian savior
maturity age democracy
I don't know whether it's age or maturity, but I certainly find myself committed more and more to the looser forms of Western democracy at any price.