International business may conduct its operations with scraps of paper, but the ink it uses is human blood.

The important thing to know about an assassination or an attempted assassination is not who fired the shot, but who paid for the bullet.

Never tell a lie when you can bullshit your way through it

International business may conduct its operations with scraps of paper, but the ink it uses is human blood.

A person who searched rooms, brandished pistols, dangled promises of half a million franc fees for nameless services and then wrote instructions to Polish spies might reasonably be regarded with suspicion. But suspicion of what?

For the skeptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman law it is administered with subhuman inefficiency.

Good' did not triumph. 'Evil' did not triumph. The two resolved, destroyed each other and created new 'evils', new 'goods' which slew each other in their turn.