My definition of a decent society is one that first of all takes care of its losers, and protects its weak. What I see in my country, progressively over these years, is that the rich have got richer, the poor have got poorer. The rich have become indifferent through a philosophy of greed, and the poorer have become hopeless because they're not properly cared for. That's actually something that is happening in many Western societies. Your own, I am told, is not free from it.

Luck's just another word for destiny... either you make your own or you're screwed.

Fools, most linguists. Damn all to say in one language, so they learn another and say damn all in that.

I am still making order out of chaos by reinvention.

Ideologies have no heart of their own. They're the whores and angels of our striving selves.

The more identities a man has, the more they express the person they conceal.

Agents of disruption, subversion, sabotage and disinformation tunnelers and smugglers, listeners and forgers, trainers and recruiters and talent spotters and couriers and watchers and seducers, assassins and balloonists, lip readers and disguise artists.