It was funny how I could feel all alone and under surveillance at the same time.

Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

I will never again command an army in America if we must carry along paid spies. I will banish myself to some foreign country first.

If you read somebody’s diary, you get what you deserve.

Once suspicion is aroused, everything feeds it.

Secrets define us, they mark us, they set us apart from all the others. The secrets which we preserve provide a key to who we are, deep down.

Even a paranoid can have enemies.

Secrets are rarely betrayed or discovered according to any program our fear has sketched out.

A regime which combines perpetual surveillance with total indulgence is hardly conducive to healthy development.

There is a sickness among tyrants: they cannot trust their friends.

There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.

If the world were good for nothing else, it is a fine subject for speculation.

Nothing is hidden from the eyes of the observing world.