Completing a book, it's a little like having a baby.

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.

Do not give your haters the gratification, It means you will never let yourself down.

History wasn't just a collection of dates I memorized from textbooks

When the mind imagines its own lack of power, it is saddened by it.

It changes your life, the pursuit of truth.

I think the job of an artist is to be honest and fearless.

Above all, it is a matter of loving art, not understanding it.

We become actors without realizing it, and actors without wanting to.

If you are very valiant, it is a god, I think, who gave you this gift.

There is just no way any management with any intelligence and foresight cannot recognize the value of a corporate image. It is the best, single marketable investment that a company can make.

It is no use for the honorable member to shake his head in the teeth of his own words.