Blackmail is more effective than bribery.

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.

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

A good man knows when to sacrifice himself, a bad man survives but loses his soul.

To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare one’s self to die.

I'd rather be single, happy, and lonely sometimes than married, lonely, and happy sometimes.

I am Not, but the Universe is my Self.

When we are born, It is into a strange world.And when we live life, We find that we are all strangers.Yet when we die, We find that we were all friends who never knew it.

I, too, am beginning to feel an immense need to become a savage and create a new world.

The specific political distinction to which political actions and motives can be reduced is that between friend and enemy.

The universities are a sort of lunatic asylum for keeping young men out of mischief.

It behoves thee to love God wisely; and that may thou not do but if thou be wise.

I was born in 1949 - which seems like a long time ago... Actually, it is a long time ago, when I think about it.

She dreams of him that has forgot her love; You dote on her that cares not for your love. 'Tis pity love should be so contrary; And thinking of it makes me cry 'alas!