I handed over names and compromised so many CIA agents in the Soviet Union.

Espionage, for the most part, involves finding a person who knows something or has something that you can induce them secretly to give to you. That almost always involves a betrayal of trust.

The betrayal of trust carries a heavy taboo.

The use of the polygraph has done little more than create confusion, ambiguity and mistakes.

The U.S. is, so far as I know, the only nation which places such extensive reliance on the polygraph. It has gotten us into a lot of trouble.

I saw a limit to what I was giving as kind of a scam I was running on the KGB, by giving them people that I knew were their double agents fed to us.

Perhaps my information hurt the Soviet Union more than it helped. I have no idea. It was not something I ever discussed with the KGB officers that I was dealing with.

The FBI, to its credit in a self-serving sort of way, rejects the routine use of the polygraph on its own people.

The only thing I ever withheld from the KGB were the names of two agents whom I personally had known and handled and had a particular feeling for.

The human spy, in terms of the American espionage effort, had never been terribly pertinent.

An espionage organization is a collector: it collects raw information. That gets processed by a machinery that is supposed to resolve its reliability, and to present a finished product.

Wealth is a byproduct of wealth-oriented education, ideas, and thoughts.

The place of chess in the society is closely related to the attitude of young people towards our game.

Why don't we just expand ourselves into our perfect form, our perfect being?

When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.

Warm evenings, pale mornings, bottle of blues

Take thy self-denials gaily and cheerfully, and let the sunshine of thy gladness fall on dark things and bright alike, like the sunshine of the Almighty.

You put up with your voice and speak with it because you haven't any choice. But it's what you say that counts.

I'm a Jane Austen/Jane Eyre kind of girl.

Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.