I grew up in a completely bookless household. It was my father's boast that he had never read a book from end to end.

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 darkness of life cannot hide the light of kindness that shines from the heart.

... novels contained something inexpressibly delicious.

Living in dreams of yesterday, we find ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquests.

No one knows anything. You're going to make mistakes and you're going to do things that people think are stupid. You can't sit there and go, "I never want to make a mistake."

Our own consciousness is incapable of having produce the universe. God, therefore, exists. That is to say, there is no reason for not applying the term God, Theos, to the intimate essence

How did I come to be an artist ? Endless curiosity, observation, research - and a great amount of joy in the thing

It might be helpful to realize, that very probably the parents of the first native born Martians are alive today.

It's a small town; everybody eats in the same cafe; everybody gets their hair cut in the same barber shop. That kind of community building, I think, begins to bridge those gaps.

I will continue to forcefully support nonproliferation activities around the world.

Anything produced and then exhibited for public view is open to interpretation.