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

The fact that you can only do a little is no excuse for doing nothing.

Never trade a secret, you'll always get the short end of the bargain.

A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world.

Until we have a better relationship between private performance and the public truth, as was demonstrated with Watergate, we as the public are absolutely right to remain suspicious, contemptuous even, of the secrecy and the misinformation which is the digest of our news.

[My novels] introduce levels of intelligence ... moral doubt [and] self-doubt, which may not pertain [to real-world espionage].

A committee is an animal with four back legs.