Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.
I came to Los Angeles and did auditions for television. I made a terrible mess of most of them and I was quite intimidated. I felt very embarrassed and went back to London. I got British television jobs intermittently between the ages of 23 and 27, but it was very patchy.
A major theme in all my books is that the CIA is not only the first line of defense but they should also be the first line of offense.

