It's easy to forget what intelligence consists of: luck and speculation. Here and there a windfall, here and there a scoop.

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 am

Do not allow any discouragement in your soul.

She was a drug and he was an addict, hooked on her from the second he'd met her.

Teachers are more than any other group the guardians of civilization.

Most voters would rather have their purse or wallet stolen than be audited by the IRS.

I was curious what would happen.

I never go back on my word! That's my nindo, my ninja way!

Jesus set us free to live the abundant life by being all that He has created us to be and accomplishing all that He has planned for us to do.

Fine. Somebody else can arrange to get the stupid goat knocked up.

One does not leave a convivial party before closing time.