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We need spies that look like their targets, CIA officers who speak the dialects terrorists use, and FBI agents who can speak to Muslim women who might be intimidated by men.

From infancy on, we are all spies; the shame is not this but that the secrets to be discovered are so paltry and few.

Since real spies are so good, you never really know what actual spying is. But I do think spying is a lot more dangerous than we are led to believe.

Spying has always gone on since ancient times.

I've always wanted to be a spy, and frankly I'm a little surprised that British intelligence has never approached me.

I've known several spies who have wanted to become novelists. And novelists who became spies, of course.

If we are going to conduct espionage in the future, we are going to have to make some changes in the relationship between the intelligence community and the public it serves.

Once you've lived the inside-out world of espionage, you never shed it. It's a mentality, a double standard of existence.

You basically have a group of four spies who are chosen for a mission they feel for the fact of how competent they are and how their expertise and they're the right one for the job. But ultimately they find out they've been actually chosen for their incompetence.

In short, the hunt for bin Laden could not have been accomplished without every form of American intelligence-gathering.