If you see the world as gloomily as I see it, the only thing to do is laugh or shoot yourself.

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.

This is your life, and its ending one minute at a time.

The world is a forgotten place.

The essence of life isn't just to survive, but to also introduce your life to a very meaningful positive purpose.

First keep peace with yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.

A moose is an animal with horns on the front of its head and a hunting lodge wall on the back of it

You can always spot a well informed man his views are the same as yours.

The real "opium of the people", distracting men's minds from their essential task, is the communist myth of an earthly paradise.

Hunt looked like a man who had visited many woman's beds and knew exactly what to do in them.

You've got to go through it to get to the end of it.

Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny.