Once you've lived the inside-out world of espionage, you never shed it. It's a mentality, a double standard of existence.
The cat sat on the mat is not a story. The cat sat on the other cat’s mat is a story.
Americans believe that if you know something, you should do something about it.
I'm really a library man, or second-hand book man.
A good man knows when to sacrifice himself, a bad man survives but loses his soul.
No problem exists in isolation, one must first reduce it to its basic components, then tackle each component in turn.