I am still making order out of chaos by reinvention.

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.

Genome design is going to be a key part of the future. That's why we need fast, cheap, accurate DNA synthesis, so you can make a lot of iterations of something and test them.

I do esteem individual liberty above everything. What is a nation for, but to secure the maximum liberty to every individual?

Time pulses from the afternoon like blood from a serious wound.

We want freedom for our country, but not at the expense or exploitation of others, not so as to degrade other countries.

Good entrepreneurs have a chip on their shoulders. They are out to prove something.

If you love your life, you have to fight. If you believe in life and progress and possibilities, you have no choice.

If I can make you unhappy, then I can make you happy as well.

I had a feeling about Shakespeare's soliloquies, that there should be a real exchange between the actor and the audience.

When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.

When I was 12, I did my first sort of speaking role. But I wouldn't say I had a passion for it from the start. It developed as I started to become a bit more mature.