Generally speaking, espionage offers each spy an opportunity to go crazy in a way he finds irresistible.

A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.

I have told my sons that they are not under any circumstances to take part in massacres, and that the news of massacres of enemies is not to fill them with satisfaction or glee. I have also told them not to work for companies which make massacre machinery, and to express contempt for people who think we need machinery like that.

What you can become is the miracle you were born to be through the work that you do.

. . . hummings and clickings could be heard-the sounds attendant to the flow of electrons, now augmenting one maze of electromagnetic crises to a condition that was translatable from electrical qualities and quantities to a high grade of truth.

Do you think Arabs are dumb? They gave us our numbers. Try doing long division with Roman numerals.

He ate a pear. It was a hard one. It fought back against his grinding teeth. It snapped in juicy protest.