Unfortunately it is the weak who destroy the strong.

I don't think that there are very many good writers who don't live without a sense of tension. If they haven't got one immediately available to them, then they usually manage to manufacture it in their private lives.

Luck's just another word for destiny... either you make your own or you're screwed.

A good writer is an expert on nothing except himself. And on that subject, if he is wise, he holds his tongue.

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

What do you think spies are: priests, saints and martyrs? They're a squalid procession of vain fools, traitors too, yes; pansies, sadists and drunkards, people who play cowboys and Indians to brighten their rotten lives.

Americans believe that if you know something, you should do something about it.