“What was that Churchill saying? “Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.” That’s what this felt… — Barry Eisler Copy Share Image
“Life can only be understood backward; but it must be lived forward. —Kierkegaard” — Barry Eisler Copy Share Image
“Shoganai,” I said. Literally, There is no way of doing it. “Yes,” he said, nodding. “Elsewhere they have Cest la vie, or… — Barry Eisler Copy Share Image
“Had I not known that I was dead already I would have mourned my loss of life. —last words of Ota Dokan,… — Barry Eisler Copy Share Image
I make a good living selling hardback books through paper publishers, and I have many friends in the industry who will suffer… — Barry Eisler Copy Share Image
“I left. I told myself again I wasn’t disappointed, I wasn’t even terribly surprised. I learned a long time ago not to… — Barry Eisler Copy Share Image
“There was a time when I didn’t seem to need such things, when I would have been amused and perhaps even vaguely… — Barry Eisler Copy Share Image
What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for… — Barry Eisler Copy Share Image
“Maybe democracies, maybe all cultures, had life cycles, the same as the humans who comprised them. And maybe there were things cultures… — Barry Eisler Copy Share Image
“But, like all indulgences that are valued not just for their product but for their process, the sento will never entirely disappear.… — Barry Eisler Copy Share Image
“My mother would have wanted me to say a prayer, crossing myself at its conclusion, and had this been her grave, I… — Barry Eisler Copy Share Image
“I moved deeper into the comforting gloom, along a stone walkway covered in cherry blossoms that lay like tenebrous snow in the… — Barry Eisler Copy Share Image
“That I was apparently into body building at all at this stage in my life probably meant affairs with young women, for… — Barry Eisler Copy Share Image
“suffering in the midst of the vast city from solitude so acute that not even the narcotic of late-night television talk shows… — Barry Eisler Copy Share Image
“When you’ve known someone only briefly, even if intensely, death comes as a shock, but not a particularly long or deep one.… — Barry Eisler Copy Share Image
“Avoiding the facility’s tangle of Life Cycles and Cybex machines, he had focused instead on a series of punches, blocks, and kicks… — Barry Eisler Copy Share Image
“But, like all indulgences that are valued not just for their product but for their process, the sento will never entirely disappear. For in… — Barry Eisler Copy Share
“She’s a bargirl. You don’t know where her loyalties lie. That one was unconvincing. No one had directed her against me—I was the one… — Barry Eisler Copy Share
“In my unpleasant experience, unarmed against a knife, you’ve basically got four options. Your best bet is to run like hell, if you can.… — Barry Eisler Copy Share
The most important guideline when it comes to argument is the golden rule. If someone were addressing your point, what tone, what overall approach… — Barry Eisler Copy Share
“That I was apparently into body building at all at this stage in my life probably meant affairs with young women, for whom a… — Barry Eisler Copy Share
“Immediately the sounds of the street below grew detached, distant, the meaningless echoes of urban voices whose urgent notes reached but held no sway… — Barry Eisler Copy Share
“I heard laughter and looked up. Some kids at the terminal next to me, playing an online game. I wondered for a moment how… — Barry Eisler Copy Share
“I shifted my head slightly. The corners of our mouths brushed together. I felt her breath on my cheek. Then we were kissing. Her… — Barry Eisler Copy Share
“I looked at her. Why was it her question seemed suffused with double entendre? She was attractive, of course, more than attractive, but that… — Barry Eisler Copy Share
“I realized my knowledge of that potentially damning evidence gave Delilah a reason to want me out of the way. “Out of the way”… — Barry Eisler Copy Share
“I wouldn’t want to try to take this guy out with anything less than a scoped rifle. Which is something that’s hard to confuse… — Barry Eisler Copy Share
“I picked up the earthen cup and went to take a sip. “Not like that,” Miyamoto said. “Let it cool a little. Give yourself… — Barry Eisler Copy Share
“It seemed he’d recently learned the value of playing up the difficulty of accomplishing whatever he was tasked with, the better to play the… — Barry Eisler Copy Share
“Yukiko walked over, her mouth stretching into a feline grin at the sight of Murakami. Naomi followed a moment later. She was wearing another… — Barry Eisler Copy Share
It would be awesome to be so impressive that we could sway people to our way of thinking just by declaiming our thoughts, but… — Barry Eisler Copy Share
