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I'm sort of fascinated by the whole espionage crime thing.

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

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.

I don't know if the European Union contributes a great deal to espionage. At the union level, they talk about commerce and privacy. But to keep citizens safe, that remains a responsibility back in national capitals.

It is essential to seek out enemy agents who have come to conduct espionage against you and to bribe them to serve you. Give them instructions and care for them. Thus doubled agents are recruited and used.

Breaking a cardinal rule of spy craft, I actually let it be known that I wanted to work for the CIA.

We have some material on spying by a major government on the tech industry. Industrial espionage.

When you really study espionage movies, or spy movies, the beginnings are really set up to have, like, an amazing bit of action, but at the moment you're watching it, you have no idea why or what it's about.

What I really found was that the one similarity between 'Covert Affairs' and 'Fair Game' is a deep love and admiration and fascination with the home life of a spy.

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