There will be no war, but in the pursuit of principle no stone will be left standing.

In itself, the practice of deception is not particularly exacting; it is a matter of experience, of professional expertise, it is a facility most of us can acquire.

A spy, like a writer, lives outside the mainstream population. He steals his experience through bribes and reconstructs it.

Love is whatever you can still betray. Betrayal can only happen if you love.

Unfortunately it is the weak who destroy the strong.

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

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.