Social intelligence was therefore always at a high premium. A sharp sense of empathy can make a huge difference, and with it in an ability to manipulate, to gain cooperation, and to deceive.

Don't let them drag you down by rumors just go with what you believe in.

The imagination is part of the arsenal that actors draw from.

I am a man with an open mind. I really don't know anything, but I'm very interested in the spiritual and the material.

Receptiveness is a rare and massive power, like fortitude.

Vacation: a period of travel and relaxation when you take twice the clothes and half the money you need.

Dance is bigger than the physical body. When you extend your arm, it doesn't stop at the end of your fingers, because you're dancing bigger than that; you're dancing spirit.

I knew the basic outline of the novel [The Dissemblers] and would write whatever scene of the book I felt particularly excited about at the time.

I think Michael O'Donoghue felt he'd said what he wanted to say. In fact, nobody thought we could spin it out long enough to make a book.

Yes; we have a specific procedure which we follow in all cases where the Agency is in contact, for the purposes of acquiring intelligence or whatever the case may be, with an individual.

I grew up in the south, poor - on rock, dirt roads.