The Vietnamese have a secret weapon. It's their willingness to die beyond our willingness to kill. In effect, they've been saying, You can kill us, but you'll have to kill a lot of us; you may have to kill all of us. And, thank heaven, we are not yet ready to do that.
There are a lot of shows that have secrets and string people along and use the secrets of the narrative engine to keep people coming back every week. I don't know if those programs even have an answer. I don't know how they build their shows.
In most cases, cables are marked secret not because the U.S. requires it but because those speaking to us - the foreign leaders across the table - do. They are not keeping secrets from us, but from two other groups: their enemies and their subjects.
Most of the important secrets that I've known about, the real secrets that are known about aren't worth publishing.
That place that no one knows about - horrifying things we keep secret. A lot of that is released through acting.
I have my sympathies and also my critical views, and they aren't much of a secret, but my first job is to see and hear and think about what I've seen and heard.
The first internal relation that is essential to a secret society is the reciprocal confidence of its members.
The secrets of small towns have fascinated writers and readers since the first psychological thriller was penned.