It is also the pardonable vanity of lonely people everywhere to assume that they have no counterparts.

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.

What do you think of the old boy?" said Jean."He's got a strangely sunny view of ten years of defeat", said Locke, "but if I get killed in the next six weeks, I want him to speak at my funeral.

The wisest mind hath something yet to learn.

After all, when the world looks to America, they look to us because we are the most successful political and economic experiment in human history.

After the brain tumor happened, I realized I love acting, I've always loved it, I may never get a chance to do it again.

Once you're labeled as mentally ill, and that's in your medical notes, then anything you say can be discounted as an artefact of your mental illness.

Don't worry about trying to do a perfect job. There is no perfect job. There is no one way of raising your children.

That was another lesson I had learned perhaps too well: people meant pain.

When the lightning strikes but one, not one only does it terrify.

I back away from negativity - there's too much in this world, and I don't want to be around it.

I didn't ask to be Thom Yorke. Thom Yorke asked to be me.