The first duty of a good inquisitor is to suspect especially those who seem sincere to him.

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.

Even a paranoid can have enemies.

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

The life of spies is to know, not be known.

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

Once suspicion is aroused, everything feeds it.

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.

Secrecy lies at the very core of power.

There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.

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

Guard more faithfully the secret which is confided to you than the money which is entrusted to your care.