I mean, you can't be less ruthless than the opposition simply because your government's policy is benevolent, can you now?

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.

Words and magic were in the beginning one and the same thing, and even today words retain much of their magical power.

Even a lie is a psychic fact.

The reason why you don't see people looking like me is because I don't encourage that. I encourage you to be you.

Someone once said that dancers work just as hard as policeman, always alert, always tense. But I don't agree with that because policeman don't have to look beautiful at the same time.

We are not imprisoned by circumstances, setbacks, mistakes or staggering defeats, we are freed by our choices.

In fact, Charles Koch tried to get [Mike] Pence to run for the White House in 2012.

Adversity makes men remember God.

The heart is a tender but hardy organ. Daring to have a wonderful experience, even though you may get hurt, is the only way you'll realize its deepest desires.

God's a funky little dude because everyone's looking for Him and no one can find Him.

The best research is the research that you don't know that you are doing.