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

Nothing is hidden from the eyes of the observing world.

Spies are of no use nowadays. Their profession is over. The newspapers do their work instead.

We must not always talk in the marketplace of what happens to us in the forest.

Even a paranoid can have enemies.

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

To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.

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

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.

The life of spies is to know, not be known.

The first duty of a good inquisitor is to suspect especially those who seem sincere to him.

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

For sooner will men hold fire in their mouths than keep a secret.