Survival...is an infinite capacity for suspicion.

Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes.

The trouble is, when professional spies go out of their way to make a definitive statement about one of their own, the public tends to believe the opposite: which puts us all back where we started.

Power expands through the distribution of secrecy.

Each my book feels like my last book. And then I think, like a dedicated alcoholic, that one more won't do me any harm.

A spy, like a writer, lives outside the mainstream population. He steals his experience through bribes and reconstructs it.

I don't think it is given to any of us to be impertinent to great religions with impunity.