Switzerland is a land where crime is virtually unknown, yet most Swiss males are required by law to keep in their homes what amounts to a portable, personal machine gun.

All field agents have some cowboy in them – even the ones from New York.

America is the most inventive country in the world. Why? Because everybody has access to information. In the Soviet Union it was illegal to take a photograph of a train station. Look what happened to them.

Fighting wars is not so much about killing people as it is about finding things out. The more you know, the more likely you are to win a battle.

Life is about learning; when you stop learning, you die.

Surviving is much more painful than death.

In the Soviet Union it was illegal to take a photograph of a train station. Look what happened to them. They tried to classify everything.