I've always had difficulties with female characters.

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.

Home is what you take with you, not what you leave behind.

It was just the human story again, flowing through me as it did through everyone else, and I'd mistaken it as my own.p 284

In acceptance, I am grounded. In vulnerability, I am strong. In love, I am whole.

You should see some of the things people tweet me. There have been death wishes on my Twitter timeline.

Clarissa," he said, "here with the vampire, I see. When things have settled a bit, we really must discuss you choice in pets.

In Cuba they don't celebrate Halloween but my favorite moments have been trick-or-treating with my kids here in the U.S.: they really enjoy it.

Were we faultless, we would not derive such satisfaction from remarking the faults of others.

If you stick a knife nine inches into my back and pull it out three inches, that is not progress.

Global collaboration is something that Wiki mastered in a small way and here we can master it in a big way.