Survival...is an infinite capacity for suspicion.

After all, if you make your enemy look like a fool, you lose the justification for engaging him.

In every operation there is an above the line and a below the line. Above the line is what you do by the book. Below the line is how you do the job.

Luck's just another word for destiny... either you make your own or you're screwed.

If you see the world as gloomily as I see it, the only thing to do is laugh or shoot yourself.

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

Treason is very much a matter of habit, Smiley decided.