The only reward for love is the experience of loving.

For decades to come the spy world will continue to be the collective couch where the subconscious of each nation is confessed.

You have no idea how humiliating it was, as a boy, to suddenly have all your clothes, your toys, snatched by the bailiff. I mean we were a middle-class family, it's not as if it was happening up and down the street. It made me ashamed, I felt dirty.

In itself, the practice of deception is not particularly exacting; it is a matter of experience, of professional expertise, it is a facility most of us can acquire.

Unfortunately it is the weak who destroy the strong.

No problem exists in isolation, one must first reduce it to its basic components, then tackle each component in turn.

People like you should be stopped, Mr. Woodrow,' she mused aloud, with a puzzled shake of her wise head. 'You think you're solving the world's problems but actually you're the problem.