We all leave behind bits of loose thread. Old operations, old enemies. They pull at you, like memories of old lovers.

The best way to win at a game of chance is to remove chance from the equation.

The further we are from the last disaster, the closer we are to the next.

Jews don't camp...The last time the Jews went camping, they spent forty years wandering in the desert.

So what are you planning to do with the rest of your life? Develop a drinking problem. More Scotch, please.

I grew up reading the classic novels of Cold War espionage, and I studied Russian history and Soviet foreign policy.

So what are you planning to do with the rest of your life?Develop a drinking problem. More Scotch, please.

Vicary had decided he wanted to contribute. He wanted to do something instead of watching the world through his well-guarded window.

He felt as though the bones of his ribcage were snapping beneath the weight of the stone that God had laid over his heart.

Perhaps the Allies will engage in some trickery. A diversionary landing, perhaps as you yourself have suggested, my Fuhrer. But the real strike will come here. At Calais.

Why, we're simply going to create an army of a million men. Conjure it up, I'm afraid, completely out of thin air.

Imagination is but another name for super intelligence.

I believe I gather strength from the generations of women who came before me - that together we all hold the suffering of the world.

He mourns the dead who lives as they desire.

Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.

So much is said with the electricity of the eyes, the intensity of a whisper. Less is more.

You know, when a man is raped you never hear about what he was wearing.

The discrepancy between equity earnings yields and Treasury yields is at an all time high

You can reconstruct the picture from chaos and memory's ruins.

I'm secretly a clown, or maybe it's not much of a secret! I'm a little putzo, as the Italians say - a little bit loopy.

Love hath made thee a tame snake