A committee is an animal with four back legs.

It's the oldest question of all, George. Who can spy on the spies?

During the Cold War, we lived in coded times when it wasn't easy and there were shades of grey and ambiguity.

A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world.

The only reward for love is the experience of loving.

Let's all pretend to be someone else, and then perhaps we'll find out who we are.

I think the greatest single enemy is the misuse of information, the perversion of truth in the hands of terribly skillful people.

The cat sat on the mat is not a story. The cat sat on the other cat’s mat is a story.

I used to think it was clever to confuse comedy with tragedy. Now I wish I could distinguish them.

Blackmail is more effective than bribery.

A spy, like a writer, lives outside the mainstream population. He steals his experience through bribes and reconstructs it.

You'll never win anything with kids

Ajihad: You are an enigma, Eragon, a quandary that no one knows how to solve.

Rose of the desert! thou art to me An emblem of stainless purity,-- Of those who, keeping their garments white, Walk on through life with steps aright.

Narcotics cannot still the tooth. That Nibbles at the soul

If your book doesn't keep you up nights when you are writing it, it won't keep anyone up nights reading it.

God's unspotted faithfulness never failed any soul that durst trust himself in its arms.

My father was very intense, passionate and over-the-top. He was my hero and my tyrant.

I haven't left a mark on the world, but is that so bad? Considering how deeply the world has marked me?

Now I have the pawn and the compensation.