Even a paranoid can have enemies.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Secrecy lies at the very core of power.

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