Ideologies have no heart of their own. They're the whores and angels of our striving selves.

A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world.

The spy who came in from the cold.

The only reward for love is the experience of loving.

Coming home from very lonely places, all of us go a little mad: whether from great personal success, or just an all-night drive, we are the sole survivors of a world no one else has ever seen.

I don't think it is given to any of us to be impertinent to great religions with impunity.

We have given away far too many freedoms in order to be free. Now it's time to take some back.

Sometimes we do a thing in order to find out the reason for it. Sometimes our actions are questions not answers.

America has entered one of its periods of historic madness, but this is the worst I can remember.