Let's die of it before we're too old.

It's a principle of mine to come into the story as late as possible, and to tell it as fast as you can.

There is a terrible alienation in the ordinary man between what he is being told and what he secretly believes.

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

Ideologies have no heart of their own. They're the whores and angels of our striving selves.

I think the greatest single enemy is the misuse of information, the perversion of truth in the hands of terribly skillful people.

A committee is an animal with four back legs.