As our Governments spin, lie and lose their credibility, the electorate simply shrugs and looks the other way.

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.

Because no one needs to live for ever. I think that sometimes you can outstay your welcome.

ALWAYS hook a reader. If a detail is unnecessary, it doesn't belong in your work, long or short! Make everything intriguing. If you have to describe a desk, make it awesome.

When you get your powers, you learn a lot about yourself. My professors called me mad. It was time for me to stop punishing myself, and start punishing everybody else.

I have no idea how much money I've got.

All real change requires risk. You must take risks every day of your life. You must get up each morning and ask...: What can I do that is different?

Far superior to the pleasures and rewards of the illusion that is Earthly life are the pleasure and rewards of the Reality.

Until you go to Kentucky and with your own eyes behold the Derby, you ain't never been nowhere and you ain't seen nothin'!

I would not have gone into Iraq.

Not every love, but only that which has a noble purpose, is noble and worthy of praise.

What power has love but forgiveness?