When you're my age and you see a story, you better go for it pretty quickly. I'd just like to get a few more novels under my belt. John le Carre More Quotes by John le Carre More Quotes From John le Carre 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. John le Carre choose name day identity I think, increasingly, despite what we are being told is an ever more open world of communication, there is a terrible alienation in the ordinary man between what he is being told and what he secretly believes. John le Carre think man communication world