There is no such thing as a secure writer: every novel is an impossible mountain.

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.

Our world no longer hears God because it is constantly speaking, at a devastating speed and volume, in order to say nothing.

There are more than one universe, and its inhabitants.

I want to question the images that are in our memory. There is always a double level in my work; what you see is true and at the same time not true.

I don't do acid anymore, so I travel instead.

I'm a boring guy - I have a wife and three kids. I'm not like Mr. Controversy.

I speak onstage to try to establish some method of communication. The songs are supposed to be a way of communicating. But speech and drinks and sometimes chocolates are also a way of communicating.

I think sometimes your worst enemy is inside your head. All your insecurities, your ego, your fears, your expectations.

You create your own decoration. You choose your color, you choose your mood. ... If you are depressed, you put some bright yellow and suddenly you are happy.

In God we trust; all others bring data.

Contentment is better than divinations or visions.