I don't know whether it's age or maturity, but I certainly find myself committed more and more to the looser forms of Western democracy at any price.

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.

We are entitled to violate history, provided that it results in handsome offspring.

You need money to make money is nonsense! Entrepreneur people who started with nothing but an idea.

I always wanted to shave. It is a very natural process. For my birthday I got a lot of shaving stuff.

Some men are like a clock on the roof; they are useful only to the neighbors.

What's the difference between a Rottweiler and a poodle peeing on your leg? You let the Rottweiler finish.

MS Dhoni still the best bet as Test, ODI captain. No calmer finisher than Dhoni

Perhaps the single most important therapeutic credo that I have is that the unexamined life is not worth living.

Being evil is something that only humans are capable of.

Great writing is great writing. It's as simple as all that.

Once the current of awareness of the self is set afoot, it becomes everlasting and continuous by intensification.