There are moments which are made up of too much stuff for them to be lived at the time they occur.

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.

Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.

The meaning of world is the separation of wish and fact.

Look for the consistency and you will find all the trust you need. It is often found in the people that stick around long after every one has decided to leave.

The only sin in this world is to lose faith in yourself.

I have shed many tears.

And when I perform on my own tour, I have to talk myself into going out on that stage every single night.

Art, in fact, can be nothing but violence, cruelty and injustice.

Often, instead of offering empathy, we have a strong urge to give advice or reassurance and to explain our own position or feeling.

I don't want to do something, if I don't feel like I can do a good job serving the material.

It would be a fine thing, in which I hardly dare believe, to pass our lives near each other, hypnotized by our dreams.