Once you've lived the inside-out world of espionage, you never shed it. It's a mentality, a double standard of existence.

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.

Anybody can take offense in everything. You will just go crazy if you try to make everything politically correct every single second.

The health of an enlightened and progressive society is measured by how vibrant is its science fiction, since that is where true self-critique and appraisal and hope lie.

If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more audacious.

My mom is a wonderful woman. She's always been an inspiration to me, but having kids helped me make even more sense of my relationship with her.

It is not death that I'm apparently now succumbing to, but the rapid diminishment of lifeforce from this body of mine.

Shame is no comrade for the poor, I weet.

I'd like to make music for as long as I can; it feels like something I need to do.

I try to be consistent, so I practice yoga and Pilates to help keep my body and mind balanced.

When I said that the mentally ill should be in institutions, public universities weren't the kind of institutions I had in mind.

What's interesting is that I get messages from people who think I'm gone. I have messages like "Tony, we're so sorry. We loved you!"