Anthony Horowitz Quotes

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

I spent a whole career infiltrating places.

When I was younger, I actually wanted to be a CIA agent. Really. I even did the online questionnaire.

Andrew Warren was a rarity in the CIA's Clandestine Service - African-American, fluent in Arabic, and relatively young for an agent who'd already spent nearly a decade chasing terrorists in Afghanistan, Egypt, Iraq and Algeria, so deep undercover that few of his friends or family knew the nature of his work.

I always liked spy stories.

I wasn't a spy. I'd have been spotted in five seconds. Yes, I was in intelligence, but that covered a multitude of things.

I've always wanted to play a spy, because it is the ultimate acting exercise. You are never what you seem.

From the outside, the CIA seems pretty exotic, but from the inside, it's a big, bureaucratic place. Think 'post office with spies.'

Anyone who tells you he deals with the CIA is either a fool (for admitting it) or a braggart.

There are few archbishops in espionage. He's on our side and that's all that matters. Besides, one needn't ask him to one's club.

Secrecy now beclouds everything about CIA—its cost, its efficiency, its successes, and its failures.

You can probably forgive the top spy for lying about spying. Lying is part of the job description. It’s what spies do.

Secrecy now beclouds everything about the Central Intelligence Agency—its cost, its efficiency, its success, its failures.

Oh, I can keep many secrets, so I would be a phenomenal secret agent. I love secrets.

For an old spy and codebreaker like myself, nothing in the world happens by coincidence.

I really wanted to be a spy. I guess it's a bit like acting, where you play a role.

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

I'm not a spy, which is the real question

Of all those in the army close to the commander, none is more intimate than the secret agent.

How totally unexpected," he declared, then proceeded to faint from blood loss.

Someone responding to the story said 'real spies do not speak like that'. Well, I am a spy and that is how they talk. Whenever we had a debate in the office on how to handle crimes, they do not defend due process - they defend decisive action. They say it is better to kick someone out of a plane than let these people have a day in court. It is an authoritarian mindset in general.

I love the spy genre.

We need to make is to strengthen the position of the director of the CIA.

The men and women of the CIA are a national treasure.

I was with the CIA for only three years. I worked in the Directorate of Operations, which is now called the National Clandestine Service. It's the part of the organization where the spies live. I didn't have much experience beyond the training.