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

Even a paranoid can have enemies.

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

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

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

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

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

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

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

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

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

Nothing is hidden from the eyes of the observing world.

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