Luck's just another word for destiny... either you make your own or you're screwed.

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.

Where utility ends and decoration begins is perfection.

Anti-Semitism is extremely common.

If you're playing someone who's got marital problems, you have to play someone who's trying not to have marital problems. So, you've got to get into the problem first.

The sign that the kundalini is releasing is not the development of miraculous powers, but that your mind is becoming quieter.

Judeo-Christian conservatism overcomes natural selfishness.

What you're normally doing as a writer is trying to find the narrative.

Torn' is hopeful. It's a book that meets you in your pain and shows you how to move forward with life and in your walk with God.

Most of my relatives are police marksmen, apart from my grandad who was a bank robber. He died recently, surrounded by his family.

Good ideas need good strategy to realize their potential.

I have two older sisters and one older brother and hold them largely responsible for the trouble I got into growing up. I believe as the youngest child, that is my right.