The National Surveillance State doesn't want anyone to be able to communicate without the authorities being able to monitor that communication.

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

Anger, and the self-righteousness that is both the cause and consequence of anger, tends to be easier on the psyche than personal responsibility.

If you focus on the risks, they'll multiply in your mind and eventually paralyze you. You want to focus on the task, instead, on doing what needs to be done.

I make a good living selling hardback books through paper publishers and I have many friends in the industry who will suffer as it changes, so on a personal level the transition to digital isn't something I welcome wholeheartedly.

The National Surveillance State doesn't want anyone to be able to communicate without the authorities being able to monitor that communication.

I wandered the earth a mercenary, daring the gods to kill me but surviving because part of me was already dead.