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

My definition of a decent society is one that first of all takes care of its losers, and protects its weak.

History keeps her secrets longer than most of us. But she has one secret that I will reveal to you tonight in the greatest confidence. Sometimes there are no winners at all. And sometimes nobody needs to lose.

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.

When a problem threatens to engulf you, there's nothing like irrelevant detail to keep your head above water.

Survival...is an infinite capacity for suspicion.

Most people like to read about intrigue and spies. I hope to provide a metaphor for the average reader's daily life. Most of us live in a slightly conspiratorial relationship with our employer and perhaps with our marriage.