“He had to grow his own NCOs.”

“The extraneous duties, in a sense, were the job.”

“You couldn't allow yourself to get bored. THAT would be a fight.”

“People in the intelligence community are not made to believe in coincidences.”

“It wasn't an epidemic yet because no one knew about it.”

“A rare academic (was) a man who knew what he didn't know.”

“We're fascinated by the words--but where we meet is in the silence behind them.”

“Diplomacy "was like a card game. The difference was that you never really knew the value of the cards in your own hand.”

“Just as in the body, eye and ear develop as organs of perception, as senses for bodily processes, so does a man develop in himself soul and spiritual organs of perception through which the soul and...”

“The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.”

“An ordinary mirror is silvered at the back but the window of the night train has darkness behind the glass. My face and the faces of other travellers were now mirrored on this darkness in a success...”