Unfortunately it is the weak who destroy the strong.

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.

The viola and the clarinet made for an interesting pairing: we had to imagine the accompaniment of other instruments, ideally a violin and a cello.

Goals are set in life to enable concentrated and directed effort to be employed toward a desired end. Without goals, it will be easy to derail, and it will also be hard to track progress.

Revenge only engenders violence, not clarity and true peace. I think liberation must come from within.

Whatever work he does, beyond what is sufficient to purchase his own maintenance, can be squeezed out of him by violence only, and not by any interest of his own.

One of the most original and most important ideas advanced by Hayek is the role of the 'division of knowledge' in economic society.

I must have been an insufferable child; all children are.

I want our pie to grow all the people, but if some other guy's pie is growing a little faster, that's terrific.

See your road through.

Their smiles are lies. Most smiles are.

Perhaps I shifted from "me" to "we" when I realized that "I" could get a lot more done with "us."