A committee is an animal with four back legs.
A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world.
A good man knows when to sacrifice himself, a bad man survives but loses his soul.
Blackmail is more effective than bribery.
Elections are a Western jerk-off.
Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes.
I think the greatest single enemy is the misuse of information, the perversion of truth in the hands of terribly skillful people.
I used to think it was clever to confuse comedy with tragedy. Now I wish I could distinguish them.
If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing.
In itself, the practice of deception is not particularly exacting; it is a matter of experience, of professional expertise, it is a facility most of us can acquire.
It's easy to forget what intelligence consists of: luck and speculation. Here and there a windfall, here and there a scoop.
Let's all pretend to be someone else, and then perhaps we'll find out who we are.
Love is whatever you can still betray. Betrayal can only happen if you love.
Luck's just another word for destiny... either you make your own or you're screwed.
Most of us live in a condition of secrecy: secret desires, secret appetites, secret hatreds and relationship with the institutions which is extremely intense and uncomfortable.
My definition of a decent society is one that first of all takes care of its losers, and protects its weak.
Never trade a secret, you'll always get the short end of the bargain.
No problem exists in isolation, one must first reduce it to its basic components, then tackle each component in turn.
Savages...are by nature rash. They have no middle gear. The middle gear of any man is self-discipline.
Sometimes we do a thing in order to find out the reason for it. Sometimes our actions are questions, not answers.
The friends of my friends are my friends.
The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous.
The neglected are too easily killed.
The only reward for love is the experience of loving.
There's one thing worse than change and that's the status quo.
To possess another language is to possess another soul.
We are in the process of doing things in defense of our society which may very well produce a society which is not worth defending.
You can't make war against terror. Terror is a technique of battle. It's a tactic that has been employed since time immemorial. You can conduct clandestine action against terrorists, and that must be done.
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