I used to think it was clever to confuse comedy with tragedy. Now I wish I could distinguish them.

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.

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.

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

Wealth is evidently not the good we are seeking

Experiencing life with your whole heart will not only bring more of what you desire but often it will surpass what you could have imagined!

Every month I do a webcast for 55, 000 people, and it's a great tool, great communication vehicle.

A racing horse is not like a machine. It has to be tuned up like a racing car.

As a young child, I was never a crier. I never cried to get my way, or even when I was in pain.

The end of rebellion is liberation, while the end of revolution is the foundation of freedom.

Teaching has given me a community that cares about poetry, and I'm grateful for that.

It's all make believe, isn't it?

The only reactionaries are those who find themselves at home in the present.

Tomorrow I will curse the dawn, but there will be other, earlier nights, and the dawns will be no longer hell laid out in alarms and raw bells and sirens.