I can't think of anybody worse to live with.

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.

Stand up to ignorance, because if you don't, the ignorant will run free to spread ignorance like a disease.

What delicious abandon in the sleep of the child. Where do we lose it?

Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes.

Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

I don't get along with anything, I really don't...I'm, I'm, maybe I'm just a, you know, incredibly tasteful human being.

Popular music is all about traveling at the speed of you and elevating the individual as the highest thing in the world.

We desert those who desert us; we cannot afford to suffer; we must live how we can.

The sullen boy sitting before me is not my husband, and the girl he is fretting over isn't me, will never be me.

Just think of yourself as starting from zero every time. That's what I do with every new role. I'm at zero, and I'm going to do the work.

If you have time to lean, you have time to clean.