America has entered one of its periods of historic madness, but this is the worst I can remember.

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.

In the end I didn't know who I was crying for, but it was something my body wanted to do, as though trying to digest grief.

They are as stubble before the wind and as chaff that the storm carrieth away.

I worry that free imagination is overvalued, and I think this carries risks.

Success, wealth, good health and nurturing relationships are by-products of happiness, not the cause.

Only the more Rugged Mortals should attempt to Keep Up on Current Literature.

Nine holes of golf will take you one-and-a-half, two hours. I run in 20 minutes, I feel better off. So the cost benefit made me drop golf.

Your waist size should not be more than half your height.

When the case against me was dropped, the police simply said "no further action". They do that with everybody.

Our magistrates discharge their duties best at the beginning; and fall off toward the end. [Lat., Initia magistratuum nostrorum meliora, ferme finis inclinat.]

Every step is a first step if it's a step in the right direction.