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

Everyone who is not happy must be shot.

A lot of people see doubt as legitimate philosophical posture. They think of themselves in the middle, whereas of course really, they're nowhere.

I grew up in a completely bookless household. It was my father's boast that he had never read a book from end to end.

Survival...is an infinite capacity for suspicion.

Wives?" she asked, interrupting him. For a moment, he had assumed she was tuning to the novel. Then he saw her waiting, suspicious eyes, so he replied cautiously, "None active," as if wives were volcanoes.

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