“ It’s a science. There are people out there who are experts at getting others to do tomorrow what was unthinkable today. Barry Eisler
“ It might be beneficial for him occasionally to be reminded that I work for myself. That he was a stagehand, not one of the actors. Barry Eisler
“ In the scope of the universe, and the arc of justice, my life is of little consequence. Barry Eisler
“ I was impressed. I had been taking care not to stand out or to otherwise become memorable, and he had spotted me anyway. He was well attuned to his environment, to the patterns that might at some poin… Barry Eisler
“ I squeezed her hips, then ran my hands up and over the curve of her ribs to her breasts. Her nipples were hard under the wet fabric of her dress. Her body radiated heat. I heard myself groan. It sound… Barry Eisler
“ I read Reinhold Niebuhr’s Moral Man and Immoral Society, where Niebuhr talked about how the baser self has to deceive the better self to get the better self’s buy-in for behavior it would never otherw… Barry Eisler
“ He wiped his brow. So. Consider this state of affairs from Yamaoto’s perspective. He understands that, with the immune system suppressed, there must eventually be a catastrophic failure of the host. T… Barry Eisler
“ Gradually our surroundings became more residential. We passed wide, open doorways. These I checked automatically, but they offered no danger, only miscellaneous domestic scenes: four elderly women abs… Barry Eisler
“ Death catches everyone eventually, and I had never harbored any illusions about its ability to catch me. That it had hesitated so long to do so seemed born more of a desire to mock me than of any real… Barry Eisler
“ But she was also uneasy. She remembered when she’d been in college and had come across the Nietzsche quote: Beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster. Barry Eisler
“ But accurate insights might have helped me. Medicine isn’t supposed to taste good—that’s what candy is for. Medicine is supposed to make you better. Barry Eisler
“ Why are the most painful memories also the sweetest; why does the sweetness always draw us back no matter how long the pain might have kept us away beforehand? I don’t know, Barry Eisler
“ What was that Churchill saying? Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result. That’s what this felt like. Barry Eisler
“ We found a cab. I got in first and she slid in behind me. She told the driver to take us to 3-3-5 Shibuya-ku, south side of Roppongi-dori. I smiled. Tantra? I asked. She looked at me, perhaps a little… Barry Eisler
“ The teeming scene in front of the station made familiar Tokyo look deserted by comparison. The street stretching out before me between rows of crumbling low-rises and slumped office buildings looked l… Barry Eisler
“ The insult was calculated. Whether this guy was an amateur or a professional, he would perceive himself as the latter, and would now be invested in proving it to me. Interrogators call the technique e… Barry Eisler
“ It took me a long time to learn that proving people wrong is purposeless, fighting stupidity is futile, and formal recognition prevents people from underestimating you—and thereby from ceding to you s… Barry Eisler
