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

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 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.

An espionage organization is a collector: it collects raw information. That gets processed by a machinery that is supposed to resolve its reliability, and to present a finished product.

The difficulties of conducting espionage against the Soviet Union in the Soviet Union were such that historically the Agency had backed away from the task.

My mother is convinced that yellow is a happy color and that a happy girl would get a husband.-Penelope Featherington

Turn your pain into purpose.

Your inner messages stand apart because rather than trying to control you, your soul wants to liberate you.

Horror is always aware of its cause; terror never is. That is precisely what makes terror terrifying.

Gold, on the contrary, though of little use compared with air or water, will exchange for a great quantity of other goods.

It is the highest creatures who take the longest to mature, and are the most helpless during their immaturity.

Women should stop going for the bad guys, stop looking so far when the good ones are right there.

If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few. The future depends on what we do in the present

Some, either from being glued to vice by a natural attachment, or from long habit, no longer recognize its ugliness.

I think my songwriting has developed over the years. As I get older, I have become less afraid to share real experiences.