I happen to write by hand. I don't even type.

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.

There's an amazing world out there for you to discover, Henry Denton, but you have to be willing to discover yourself first.

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

This is the grand fiction of tourism, that bringing our bodies somewhere draws that place closer to us, or we to it. It's a quick fix of empathy.

American capitalists, enthralled by the doctrines of finance, have put their income statements in service of the balance sheet.

A grown child is a dangerous thing.

Breath is the king of mind.

When a man marries a woman, they become one-the trouble starts when they try to decide which one.

The ten thousand states of mind are hallucinatory. Hallucinations are real. Dreams are real. But there are some things more real.

I think I started toddler gymnastics when I was around 3 or 4, and I began taking it seriously when I was 6.

Love your life and live your spirit!