The ability to represent failure as success would become an Agency tradition.

It takes 5 to 7 years to turn a novice into a case officer capable of working in the capitals of the world.

Their attempts to make sense of the world had carried heat but little light.

It is not enough to hope for something to happen and throw it into the universe. You, too, must also work to make it happen.

Home isn't a place, Cassie.' The memory crept up on me. 'Home is the people who love you most, the people who will always love you, forever and ever, no matter what.

Sometimes you don’t get a second chance. You need to take a chance when you have the opportunity. Always.

I've never tried to pass myself off as anything more than a comedian who wrote a dating book.

I have no faith at all. I only hold convictions.

A conquered nation is like a man with cancer: he can think of nothing else.

For since it is impossible for a created monad to have a physical influence on the inner nature of another, this is the only way in which one can be dependent on another.

Almost all enduring success comes to people after they are forty. For seldom does mature judgment arrive before then.

My own journey started long before I left, and was over before I returned.

The ironies in the commonplace are my inspiration and delight.