While the intelligence profession oftentimes demands secrecy it is critically important that there be a full and open discourse on intelligence matters with the appropriate elected representatives of the American people.

Prior to the passage of the Patriot Act it was very difficult - often impossible - for us to share information with the Central Intelligence Agency with NSA with the other intelligence agencies and likewise for them to share information with us.

It's part of a writer's profession as it's part of a spy's profession to prey on the community to which he's attached to take away information - often in secret - and to translate that into intelligence for his masters whether it's his readership or his spy masters. And I think that both professions are perhaps rather lonely.

Emotion is often what we rely upon to carry us across the unfathomable voids in our intelligence.

Intelligence agencies keep things secret because they often violate the rule of law or of good behavior.

Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.

Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.

Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.

Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.

Doing 'White Collar ' quite often my character goes undercover so therein lies the compounding of the imagination. I get to play Peter Burke and then someone else when Peter Burke goes undercover.

Sometimes a technology is so awe-inspiring that the imagination runs away with it - often far far away from reality. Robots are like that. A lot of big and ultimately unfulfilled promises were made in robotics early on based on preliminary successes.

Today mythical thinking has fallen into disrepute we often dismiss it as irrational and self-indulgent. But the imagination is also the faculty that has enabled scientists to bring new knowledge to light and to invent technology that has made us immeasurably more effective.

Talent lying in the understanding is often inherited genius being the action of reason or imagination rarely or never.

Men often take their imagination for their heart and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.

Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination rarely.

We are more often frightened than hurt and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

I think films about men are often about characters who don't want to express their feelings. You're supposed to kind of admire them for not expressing their feelings. And I feel that's a bit dull. Women's stories often have stronger emotional content which I enjoy doing. What I really love doing is mixing that with humor.

I'm not a traditional politician and I have a sense of humor. I'll try to soften it and become boring maybe even very boring but I'm not sure if I'll be able to.

It's odd how violence and humor so often go together isn't it?

I often have said that to be a college president you need a thick skin a good sense of humor and nerves like sewer pipes.

I don't think I could ever do a network sitcom because the humor is often based on some trite circumstance. I don't want to be a part of a show where it's mostly about coming up with the jokes.

Insult is powerful. Insult begets both rage and humor and often at the same time.

I find that people find a way out of misery through humor and it's humor that's often unacceptable to people who are not in quite such a state of misery.