JonnyThumper

“What do you think spies are: priests, saints, and martyrs? They’re a squalid procession of vain fools, traitors too, yes; pansies, sadists, and drunkards, people who play cowboys and Indians to brighten their rotten lives.”
― John le Carré, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold

“was ashamed of Father, who didn’t care what anyone thought. And I envied him for being so free, and hated myself for feeling ashamed.”
― Paul Theroux, The Mosquito Coast

“Él que menos habla es el más chingón. He who speaks least has the most power.”
― Don Winslow, The Cartel

“The two aims of the Party are to conquer the whole surface of the earth and to extinguish once and for all the possibility of independent thought.”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm and 1984