I think bankers will always get away with whatever they can get away 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.

I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.

Grief is the emotional contract of divorce

If you can't Smile for Yourself then Smile for Others

I don't want to jump the gun, [but] I will tell you, though, that my goal is to have the best possible government.

A sort of good-bye without saying good-bye," he said. "It is a reference to a passage in the Bible. 'And Mizpah, for he said, the Lord watch between me and thee when we are absent one from another.

I don't get in there and create a character. It's more of a voice that I hear living inside the music.

The secret of man's success resides in his insight into the moods of people, and his tact in dealing with them.

I figured somebody wrote a story who had a typewriter and I thought that movies were made by the cowboys and that they just said, 'Okay, you fall off the horse this time.

Living in America, I became aware of many issues and went through a period of politicization

I didn't want to do anything my mother wanted me to do so surely I wasn't going to sing for her.