I move my lips when I read -- I'm painfully slow -- so I like really good English.

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.

I discovered the miracle that all things that sound are music, including the dishes and silverware in the dishwasher, as long as they fulfill the illusion of showing us where life is heading.

The moth unwitting rushes on the fire, Through ignorance the fish devours the bait, We men know well the foes that lie in wait, Yet cannot shun the meshes of desire.

I think we're all kind of alike when you do your first film. You have great hopes, but you don't hope too much.

As Hollywood knows, I'm full of ideas.

The great spirals, with their enormous radial velocities and insensible proper motions, apparently lie outside our Solar system.

Like a house in the rain, books were havens of permanence and protection from whatever it was that as a child I needed protection from.

When leading people and serving Heaven, nothing exceeds moderation.

The odds are so stacked against you to have a music career in a place where there's virtually no music industry. So I always attribute it to God.

I got Lamborghini dreams Nissan nightmares Moving white my ice cool as the night air.

The artist must train not only his eye but also his soul.