America has entered one of its periods of historic madness, but this is the worst I can remember.

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Thank heaven, though, one of the few mistakes I haven't made is to talk about the unwritten book.

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Fools, most linguists. Damn all to say in one language, so they learn another and say damn all in that.

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During the Cold War, we lived in coded times when it wasn't easy and there were shades of grey and ambiguity.

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If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing.

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A good man knows when to sacrifice himself, Brother Michael liked to say. A bad man survives but loses his soul.

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Sometimes we do a thing in order to find out the reason for it. Sometimes our actions are questions not answers.

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I think that where I've watched a movie go wrong, it's usually because the dread committee has been interfering with it.

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A spy, like a writer, lives outside the mainstream population. He steals his experience through bribes and reconstructs it.

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When you're my age and you see a story, you better go for it pretty quickly. I'd just like to get a few more novels under my belt.

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