“So what are you planning to do with the rest of your life?Develop a drinking problem. More Scotch, please.”

“I can be whoever you want me to be: CIA, FBI, DIA, an agency so fucking secret you've never heard of it before." -Gabriel Allon”

“The secrets of survivors are not easily surrendered. They are locked away behind barricaded doors and accessed at great risk to those who possess them.”

“To Pakistan? Or Afghanistan? Or Wherever-the-fuck-istan?”

“visualize your goal first, before making your plans”

“Try your best in everything you do...except if you are trying to make others happy...that is something that only they can do for themselves.”

“say what you mean and mean what you say”