Jesus Christ only had twelve, you know, and one of them was a double.

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.

When I'm talking to people I like to stop and quote myself. My quotes have a way of spicing up conversation.

There are no accidents; success is the result of doing the right thing, in the right way, over and over.

The youth do not see the old. They are not programmed to see the old, who are cancelled, negated, wiped out.

I wrote for a weekly magazine and then edited a literary magazine, but I did not really feel comfortable with the profession of journalism itself

The security of our country is not just a top priority, it's the top priority.

It's true. Happiness is a big thing.

Sin is too big to be handled alone.

The people I admire are those who keep on producing and working and going on.

It's important to know all those things, but part of our jobs is to move people along and to make people excited to buy music or buy clothes, and give them enjoyment, I think, too.

I like shirts and sweaters that fall off the shoulder or plaid button-ups.