Until we have a better relationship between private performance and the public truth, as was demonstrated with Watergate, we as the public are absolutely right to remain suspicious, contemptuous even, of the secrecy and the misinformation which is the digest of our news.

Once you've lived the inside-out world of espionage, you never shed it. It's a mentality, a double standard of existence.

The fact that you can only do a little is no excuse for doing nothing.

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.

Power expands through the distribution of secrecy.

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

I happen to write by hand. I don't even type.