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

For sooner will men hold fire in their mouths than keep a secret.

Secrets define us, they mark us, they set us apart from all the others. The secrets which we preserve provide a key to who we are, deep down.

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

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

Even a paranoid can have enemies.

Once suspicion is aroused, everything feeds it.

Spies are of no use nowadays. Their profession is over. The newspapers do their work instead.

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

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

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

We must not always talk in the marketplace of what happens to us in the forest.

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