I would have loved to have met some former spies, but they don't readily advertise themselves unless they're not living in Moscow, and even then. I'm sure I've met some without realizing it.

When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.

I'm really attracted to anti-heroes, and I'm a little bit of a troublemaker myself, and a little bit of a rule-breaker, and I like spies.

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

In basic training we had been told to watch out for Japanese spies.

In basic training we had been told to watch out for Japanese spies.

Female spies typically represented one of two extremes: the seductress who employed her wiles to manipulate men, and the cross-dresser who blended in by impersonating them.

My siblings and I had this theory that my parents were spies.

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

Spies go undercover. They take on different personas.

Female spies typically represented one of two extremes: the seductress who employed her wiles to manipulate men, and the cross-dresser who blended in by impersonating them.