History keeps her secrets longer than most of us. But she has one secret that I will reveal to you tonight in the greatest confidence. Sometimes there are no winners at all. And sometimes nobody needs to lose.

The more identities a man has, the more they express the person they conceal.

Wives?" she asked, interrupting him. For a moment, he had assumed she was tuning to the novel. Then he saw her waiting, suspicious eyes, so he replied cautiously, "None active," as if wives were volcanoes.

Yet it's not for want of future that I'm here, he thought. It's for want of a present.

When a problem threatens to engulf you, there's nothing like irrelevant detail to keep your head above water.

When the world is destroyed, it will be destroyed not by its madmen but by the sanity of its experts and the superior ignorance of its bureaucrats.

During the Cold War, we lived in coded times when it wasn't easy and there were shades of grey and ambiguity.