October turned my maple's leaves to gold The most are gone now here and there one lingers Soon these will slip from out the twig's weak hold Like coins between a dying miser's fingers.

Espionage, for the most part, involves finding a person who knows something or has something that you can induce them secretly to give to you. That almost always involves a betrayal of trust.

The betrayal of trust carries a heavy taboo.

The use of the polygraph has done little more than create confusion, ambiguity and mistakes.

The U.S. is, so far as I know, the only nation which places such extensive reliance on the polygraph. It has gotten us into a lot of trouble.

I saw a limit to what I was giving as kind of a scam I was running on the KGB, by giving them people that I knew were their double agents fed to us.

Perhaps my information hurt the Soviet Union more than it helped. I have no idea. It was not something I ever discussed with the KGB officers that I was dealing with.

The FBI, to its credit in a self-serving sort of way, rejects the routine use of the polygraph on its own people.

The only thing I ever withheld from the KGB were the names of two agents whom I personally had known and handled and had a particular feeling for.

The human spy, in terms of the American espionage effort, had never been terribly pertinent.

Regardless of the popular literary trend of the times, write the thing which lies close to your heart.

Rome wasn’t built in a day, but that's because they never used Cosmic Ordering.

I will never forget the feeling of walking into my home, a place that while drifting helpless in the middle of the Indian Ocean I wondered if I would ever see again.

If you fail to prepare you prepare to fail.

What matters," said the prince at last, "is that you have a child's trusting nature and extraordinary truthfulness. Do you know that a great deal can be forgiven you for that alone?

Can't disagree with the need for a grasp of history.

If the Negro is to achieve the goal of integration, he must organize himself into a militant and nonviolent mass movement.

prayer must be, in its own nature, absurd and impertinent.

Nothing looks more foolish than tradition to those who have none.

Not everything in life can go perfectly according to plan. I mean I didn't keep every girlfriend I ever had.

I know how to make sausage, and now that I've seen how laws are made, I'll stick with sausage.