Let's all pretend to be someone else, and then perhaps we'll find out who we are.

By the age of 9 or 10, I knew that I had to cut my own cloth and make my own way.

Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes.

There are some subjects that can only be tackled in fiction.

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.

It struck him as a bit unfair that, at the age of eight, he should have manifested the same sense of solitude that haunted him at forty-three.

The greatest threat to mankind comes from the renunciation of individual scruple in favor of institutional denominators. . . . Real heroism lies, as it always will, not in conformity or even patriotism, but in acts of solitary moral courage. Which, come to think of it, is what we used to admire in our Christian savior