If we are going to conduct espionage in the future, we are going to have to make some changes in the relationship between the intelligence community and the public it serves.

I was an intelligence officer for what was then 8th Air Force, B-52 Air Force.

There is no worse place for an intelligence service like CIA to be than on Page 1, above the fold in your daily newspaper.

An intelligence analyst may attribute an attack to al Qaeda, whereas a policy maker could opt for the more general 'extremist.'

I believe we do have a great intelligence service. Is it good enough in all circumstances? Of course not. We live in the human condition. We try to make it better each day.

I have spent my adult life working in American intelligence. It has been quite an honor. Generally well resourced. A global mission. No want of issues. And it was a hell of a ride.

The FISA Amendment Act of 2008 actually allows some of the things we were doing under the president's authority only against al Qaeda, it allows them for all legitimate foreign intelligence purposes.

President Obama and his successors are dependent on the 100, 000-plus people inside the American intelligence community - the people Edward Snowden betrayed.

Americans are very practical folks. Accustomed to hard choices in their own lives, they are willing to give us in intelligence a lot of slack as we make the hard choices our profession demands.

Presidents get to decide how their intelligence is served up to them, and it's the job of intelligence to adjust.

It's good to remind intelligence producers and consumers alike about the need to 'warn of emerging conditions, trends, threats and opportunities' and the potential for discontinuities.

Home is where the love is and where the heart wants to dwell with ease.

...you called me poet-priest - I am. ...devoted to my art, faithful to you...or, is the other way around?...

When I was a teenager, I began to settle into school because I'd discovered the extracurricular activities that interested me: music and theater.

I take pride in whatever I do. If you told me to clean the room up, I'd clean it up real good.

Life is a stream of happy and unhappy experiences, because that leads to Soul's purification. How do you get by in the dark times? Try to give love to someone, especially then.

I didn't want to be either the cre'me de la cre'me or a martyr. I'd rather be a novelty, especially in a democracy that doesn't understand the language I write in.

It keeps you grounded, you lead a regular life and you appreciate things more.

Chance is a name for our ignorance.

Men are just like unlit lamps: in themselves they are no good for anything, but, when lit, they can be handy to have around the house.

If I had to embrace a definition of success, it would be that success is making the best choices we can ... and accepting them.