Kim

“Better a wise rōnin, I decided, than a naïve samurai.”
― Barry Eisler, Graveyard of Memories

“What was that Churchill saying? “Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.” That’s what this felt like.”
― Barry Eisler, Graveyard of Memories

“The romantic contrast between modern industry that “destroys nature” and our ancestors who “lived in harmony with nature” is groundless. Long before the Industrial Revolution, Homo sapiens held the record among all organisms for driving the most plant and animal species to their extinctions. We have the dubious distinction of being the deadliest species in the annals of life.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, From Animals into Gods: A Brief History of Humankind

“If you knew at the outset what you understood at the end, would you make the same choices, take the same risks, accept the same sacrifices? No. No one would. You can’t appreciate the weight of that burden until after you’ve assumed it. You can’t comprehend what it really means.”
― Barry Eisler, Graveyard of Memories