There is a sickness among tyrants: they cannot trust their friends.

Even a paranoid can have enemies.

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

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

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.

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

I will never again command an army in America if we must carry along paid spies. I will banish myself to some foreign country first.

Once suspicion is aroused, everything feeds it.

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