The Cold War was over long before it was officially declared dead.

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's the oldest question of all, George. Who can spy on the spies?

I've always had difficulties with female characters.

I think the greatest single enemy is the misuse of information, the perversion of truth in the hands of terribly skillful people.

I think that where I've watched a movie go wrong, it's usually because the dread committee has been interfering with it.

Gerald Westerby, he told himself. You were present at your birth. You were present at your several marriages and at some of your divorces, and you will certainly be present at your funeral. High time, in our considered view, that you were present at certain other crucial moments in your history.