Never trade a secret, you'll always get the short end of the bargain.

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.

When you get the coffee from the store, does it come in a great big metal can?'He beamed. 'Absolutely.'That was all I needed to hear. "Tea. A cup of tea.

It's very hard not to be condescending when you're explaining something to an idiot.

If you're going to be unreligious, it's likely going to be due to reflecting on it and finding some things that are hard to believe.

A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist.

Fatigue is the price of leadership. Mediocrity is the price of never getting tired.

I believe absolutely in my own free will and my own power to accomplish - and that is the belief that moves mountains.

Don’t use your energy to worry. Use your energy to believe.

Our whole message is it's easy to just keep preaching to the church and people that already come.

The road to ruin is always in good repair, and the travellers pay the expense of it.

I'm not saying I want a film career because I think I'm too good for television. I'm simply saying I want more control over my life.