Caleb Simpson

“I don't feel particularly proud of myself. But when I walk alone in the woods or lie in the meadows, all is well.”
― Franz Kafka, Letters to Friends, Family, and Editors

“It’s about being treated as a thing, isn’t it. Whether that thing is a hostage of conditional value, or a very expensively designed and equipped enslaved machine/organic intelligence. You’re a thing, and there is no safety.”
― Martha Wells, Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory

“I like to think that what I do is masculine... when I hold a little baby and kiss it, that's the masculine part of me holding that little baby. When I have tears because I'm scared or because I'm full of joy, they're all masculine. There's not a feminine thing about them. - Marvin Allen in Manhood.”
― Steve Biddulph

“All spies need to feel they are loved. One of the most powerful forces in espionage and intelligence work (and one of its central myths) is the emotional bond between spy and spymaster, agent and handler. Spies want to feel wanted, part of a secret community, rewarded, trusted and cherished... Exploiting and manipulating that hunger for affection and affirmation is one of the most important skills of an agent-runner. There has never been a successful spy who did not feel that the connection with his handler was something more profound than a marriage of convenience, politics or profit: a true and enduring communion, amid the lies and deception.”
― Ben Macintyre, The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War