To possess another language is to possess another soul.

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.

Earthly authorities respect only visible and tangible forces

That's the crazy thing about lies. You start to fall for them, yourself.

I am greatly obliged to you, and to all who have come forward at the call of their country.

People push my buttons, so I'm going to react.

There is no happiness that isn't earned

As of now, string theorists have no explanation of why there are three large dimensions as well as time, and the other dimensions are microscopic. Proposals about that have been all over the map.

I had a lot of experience with people smarter than I am.

It all depends on the way you look at it. The point of view is everything in this world.

But in my head I can hear Haymitch's smug, if slightly exasperated, words: "Yes, that's what I'm looking for, sweetheart.

For all that you are and all that you do, and for the many ways you make my heart sing.