A good writer can watch a cat pad across the street and know what it is to be pounced upon by a Bengal tiger.

There will be no war, but in the pursuit of principle no stone will be left standing.

Agents of disruption, subversion, sabotage and disinformation tunnelers and smugglers, listeners and forgers, trainers and recruiters and talent spotters and couriers and watchers and seducers, assassins and balloonists, lip readers and disguise artists.

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

You can't make war against terror. Terror is a technique of battle. It's a tactic that has been employed since time immemorial. You can conduct clandestine action against terrorists, and that must be done.

God is in his Heaven and the first night was a wow.

I can't think of anybody worse to live with.