A good man knows when to sacrifice himself, a bad man survives but loses his soul.

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 bond of love and the bond of peace keep us together in harmony.

One may deal with things without love...but you cannot deal with men without it...It cannot be otherwise, because natural love is the fundamental law of human life.

My Illusionist, will you take me into a world filled with timeless magic?

It's the sense of what family is at the dinner table. It was the joy of knowing mother was in the kitchen making our favorite dish. I wish more people would do this and recall the joy of life.

The badge of honesty is simplicity.

Literature got me into this mess and literature is going to have to get me out of it.

Aboriginal Australia is a tough place to work, rough and tough.

Art for art's sake makes no more sense than gin for gin's sake.

I was in the invasion of Normandy in southern France.

I like to be just an athlete, but if I go to competition and compete, I love to be a star, maybe.