Spy Quote by Lee Ranaldo

Most people like to read about intrigue and spies. I hope to provide a metaphor for the average reader's daily life. Most of us…

— 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

I spent almost a decade as an undercover officer in the CIA. I was the guy in the back alleys at four o'clock in…

— Will Hurd

There are some who become spies for money, or out of vanity and megalomania, or out of ambition, or out of a desire for…

— Max Lerner

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

I wrote 'The Spy Who Came in from the Cold' at the age of 30 under intense, unshared personal stress and in extreme privacy.…

— John le Carre

In 'A Scanner Darkly,' as in 'The Spy Who Came in from the Cold,' all intersubjective relations devolve into webs of suspicion and betrayal.

— Mark Fisher

I became paranoid for a long time: I thought that people were out to harm me.

— Jens Lekman

'The Spy Who Came in from the Cold' was the work of a wayward imagination brought to the end of its tether by political…

— John le Carre

I was never a spy. I was with the OSS organization. We had a number of women, but we were all office help.

— Julia Child

I feel really lucky that I grew up pretending to be a spy for my whole childhood.

— Daryl Sabara

It was this feeling for a lot of my characters, who are dissidents or banned artists and writers, that they had had to fight…

— Molly Antopol