The one thing you can bet is that spying is never over. Spying is like the wiring in this building: It's just a question of who takes it over and switches on the lights. It will go on and on and on.

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.

If you are positive, you'll see opportunities instead of obstacles.

My mind can be ugly. But when I read something of mine that I think is beautiful, I'm reminded mind can be beautiful too.

Our flaws are what makes us human. If we can accept them as part of who we are, they really don't even have to be an issue.

I don't face any particular problems as a woman president because I have been a professional for a long time. I keep telling people: I am a technocrat who happens to be a woman.

As it is, plain reasoning assures me I am not indispensable to the universe: but with this reasoning, somehow, does not travel my belief.

There is nothing about a bad situation that fourteen hyper cheerleaders can't worsen.

I know that if there’s a purpose for life, it was for me to hear Mozart.

Animals behave in set patterns, which is why we are able to hunt and kill them. Only man has the capacity to consciously alter his behavior, to improvise and overcome the weight of routine and habit.

Fresh dress, like a million bucks, Put on the bally shoes and the fly green socks

And I enjoyed the celebrity and the creativity that was involved in Star Trek.