What else has a journalist to do these days, after all, but report life's miseries?

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.

Safety isn't always safe. You can find one on every gun.

There are pearls in the deepest fathoms of the Self, but to get them you will have to go through unimaginable perils.

No government ought to be without censors

Well, sir, it is precisely my notion that one sees and learns most of all by observing our younger generations.

My dear girl, you must cultivate a taste for the finer things. Civilized pleasures give meaning to life.

Why should we think that we wouldn't have a cross to carry? Are we somehow more deserving than our Lord?

I am what I photograph.

Nowadays to be intelligible is to be found out.

Did you wake him?" "If I say yes, will you spank me?" Syn rolled his eyes. "You're horrible, Mari.

For naught so vile that on the earth doth live But to the earth some special good doth give.