Robert Wallace > Quotes

“Q: What is a Soviet trio?
A: A quartet returning from an overseas tour.
—1970s underground Soviet humor”
― Robert Wallace, Spycraft: The Secret History of the CIA's Spytechs from Communism to Al-Qaeda

“To learn is always to be vulnerable:
one admits not having known.
You wanted more from me than I could teach”
― Robert Wallace, Girlfriends and Wives

“There were, to be sure, limitations. A satellite could capture the image of
missiles deployed to remote areas, but seemingly endless spools of fi lm and
powerful lenses could not divine the intentions of Soviet leadership. It could
see submarines in their pens at the Severodvinsk naval base, but could not
penetrate the roofs of government labs in Moscow and Leningrad to record
images of the future weapon systems spread out across the drawing boards
of engineers. Nor could it see into the minds of the Politburo or capture the
complex internecine dynamics of Kremlin leadership. Only an agent inside
the Kremlin could do that.”
― Robert Wallace, Spycraft

“Remember, 'Ask and ye shall receive. Seek and you shall find. Look it up. Matthew 7:7”
― Robert Wallace, Spycraft: The Secret History of the CIA's Spytechs from Communism to Al-Qaeda

“Love fails.
It is
as natural

as the falling of the leaves.
The mystery
is

going on when love has failed.
The going on
is love.”
― Robert Wallace

“[Marriage is] like old enemies who share the past alone, and so are friends, and drink to it, such lovers come to be one.”
― Robert Wallace, Girlfriends and Wives