In every operation there is an above the line and a below the line. Above the line is what you do by the book. Below the line is how you do the job.

Sometimes we have to do a thing in order to find out the reason for it. Sometimes our actions are questions, not answers.

The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous. But neither, in my experience, do we ever reach a plane of detachment regarding our parents, however wise and old we may become. To pretend otherwise is to cheat.

In every operation there is an above the line and a below the line. Above the line is what you do by the book. Below the line is how you do the job.

But there is a big difference in working for the West and working for a totalitarian state.

It's death, that's what I'm suffering from. The systematic encroachment of the big D.

Out of date, perhaps, but who wasn't these days? Out of date, but loyal to his own time. At a certain moment, after all, every man chooses: will he go forward, will he go back? There was nothing dishounorable in not being blown about by every little modern wind. Better to have worth, to entrench, to be an oak of one's own generation.