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

Unfortunately it is the weak who destroy the strong.

I mean, I'm in the business of storytelling, not message making.

The one thing you can bet is that spying is never over. Spying is like the wiring in this building: It's just a question of who takes it over and switches on the lights. It will go on and on and on.

Americans believe that if you know something, you should do something about it.

Give a man a car of his own and he leaves humility and common sense behind him in the garage.

Only Esmeralda was not weeping. Instead she wore that wooden look that whites mistake for churlishenss or indifference. Woodrew knew it was neither. It was familiarity. This how real life is constituted, it said. This is grief and hatred and people hacked to death. This is the everyday we have known since we were born and you Wazungu have not.