An espionage organization is a collector: it collects raw information. That gets processed by a machinery that is supposed to resolve its reliability, and to present a finished product.

Espionage, for the most part, involves finding a person who knows something or has something that you can induce them secretly to give to you. That almost always involves a betrayal of trust.

The betrayal of trust carries a heavy taboo.

The use of the polygraph has done little more than create confusion, ambiguity and mistakes.

The U.S. is, so far as I know, the only nation which places such extensive reliance on the polygraph. It has gotten us into a lot of trouble.

I saw a limit to what I was giving as kind of a scam I was running on the KGB, by giving them people that I knew were their double agents fed to us.

Perhaps my information hurt the Soviet Union more than it helped. I have no idea. It was not something I ever discussed with the KGB officers that I was dealing with.

The FBI, to its credit in a self-serving sort of way, rejects the routine use of the polygraph on its own people.

The only thing I ever withheld from the KGB were the names of two agents whom I personally had known and handled and had a particular feeling for.

The human spy, in terms of the American espionage effort, had never been terribly pertinent.

The difficulties of conducting espionage against the Soviet Union in the Soviet Union were such that historically the Agency had backed away from the task.

O let us live in joy, in love among those who hate! Among men who hate, let us live in love.

All those years thinking I was saved and had said my yes to God, but was really living the no.

I don't like the glamour. I just like the game.

I'm just a shy and retreating kind of person. Sometimes I get in a real talkative mood - but not very often.

I was 7 years old when the '80s began and 17 years old when they ended, so it was an incredibly formative decade for me.

Kevin Eastman is like a Buddha, like the coolest thing in the world, like a rock star.

I mean you're so shy & I'm lovin your tie You're like slicker than the guy with the thing on his eye

I leave shreds of my soul on every experience.

When we appreciate something, that means we have allowed ourselves to relax and take it in.

I can only tell my story, what you believe is up to you.