Power Expands Through The Distribution Of Secrecy.

Those Who Are Not With Mr. Bush Are Against Him. Worse, They Are With The Enemy. Which Is Odd, Because I'm Dead Against Bush, But I Would Love To See Saddam's Downfall -- Just Not On Bush's Terms And Not By His Methods. And Not Under The Banner Of Such Outrageous Hypocrisy.

What Do You Think Spies Are: Priests, Saints And Martyrs? They're A Squalid Procession Of Vain Fools, Traitors Too, Yes; Pansies, Sadists And Drunkards, People Who Play Cowboys And Indians To Brighten Their Rotten Lives.

Most People Like To Read About Intrigue And Spies. I Hope To Provide A Metaphor For The Average Reader's Daily Life. Most Of Us Live In A Slightly Conspiratorial Relationship With Our Employer And Perhaps With Our Marriage.

George Smiley: [quoting An Old Letter From Bill Haydon About Jim Prideaux] He Has That Heavy Quiet That Commands. He's My Other Half. Between Us We'd Make One Marvelous Man. He Asks Nothing Better Than To Be In My Company Or That Of My Wicked, Divine Friends, And I'm Vastly Tickled By The Compliment. He's Virgin, About Eight Foot Tall, And Built By The Same Firm That Did Stonehenge

Sometimes We Have To Do A Thing In Order To Find Out The Reason For It. Sometimes Our Actions Are Questions, Not Answers.