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.

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

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

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

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

Secrecy lies at the very core of power.

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

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

Once suspicion is aroused, everything feeds it.