After all, if you make your enemy look like a fool, you lose the justification for engaging him.

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.

Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!

In Russia I went to a great yeshiva, and in America I work in a carnival.

Right action tends to be defined in terms of general individual rights and standards that have been critically examined and agreed upon by the whole society.

I love being a drummer but I love being a musician in general and I love the Foo fighters.

We ... must avoid the impulse to live only for today, plundering for our own ease and convenience the precious resources of tomorrow.

Pain is the fuel that lights the flame of our enlightenment

Imitation pleases, because it affords matter for inquiring into the truth or falsehood of imitation, by comparing its likeness or unlikeness with the original.

Alcohol is perfect for me to curb the nerves a little bit.

Music Tele-Vision should be covered in jism.

Age doesn't make a man.