Love means having something to betray.

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.

Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.

You have to conquer every mountain to fulfill the dream.

Instead of hating, I have chosen to forgive and spend all of my positive energy on changing the world.

There were certainly some people who wanted me to do a feel-good story that affirmed a lot of very commonly held beliefs.

In every life there is one particular event that is decisive for the entire person-for his fate, his convictions, his passions.

By thinking about your goals every morning, many times during the day, and every night, you begin moving toward it, and bringing it toward you.

To be a prisoner means to be defined as a member of a group for whom the rules of what can be done to you, of what is seen as abuse of you, are reduced as part of the definition of your status.

But on the other hand, I look back at my career sometimes and can't believe how fast everything has gone and how much I've been able to accomplish.

If we're all living in ourselves and mistaking it for life, then we're devaluing and desensitizing life.

The tendency of fire is to go out; watch the fire on the altar of your heart. Anyone who has tended a fireplace fire knows that it needs to be stirred up occasionally.