Collectives Quote by John le Carre

The world has changed, the CIA is having to change, and again, the challenge for someone like me as a spy novelist is to…

— David Ignatius

We have learned in recent years to translate almost all of political life in terms of conspiracy. And the spy novel, as never before,…

— John le Carre

We're going to be okay." Here's the thing about being a spy: sometimes all you have are your lies. They protect your cover and…

— Ally Carter

The trouble is, when professional spies go out of their way to make a definitive statement about one of their own, the public tends…

— John le Carre

There are Russian spies here now. And if we're lucky, they'll steal some of our secrets and they'll be two years behind.

— Mort Sahl

Once you've lived the inside-out world of espionage, you never shed it. It's a mentality, a double standard of existence.

— John le Carre

There will always be spies. We have to have them. Without them we wouldn't have got Osama bin Laden - it took us years,…

— Gary Oldman

It was a charming fantasy of romantics that the spies would stop spying, that political conflict would end and politicians would tell the truth.…

— John le Carre

From infancy on, we are all spies; the shame is not this but that the secrets to be discovered are so paltry and few.

— John Updike

The world has become one big grassy knoll, crawling with lone gunmen who think they're the Warren Commission.

— Ken MacLeod

It may be decades until we know what living in a state of constant distraction will do to us,

— Douglas Rushkoff

This is the wonderful thing about espionage, nothing exists any more.

— William Stephenson