Biography Quote by Erik Larson

“And yet how treacherous, I thought, after such neutrality, bordering on indifference, and occaisonally open hostility, when the whole city finally seemed alive and…

— Olivia Sudjic

“We remained travelers, enclosed in the self, capable, possibly, of transforming ourselves in contact with alterity, but certainly not of experiencing it profoundly. We…

— Mathias Énard

“Like my current cursed relationship with the CIA, as soon as things went to shit back then, I wanted out. Permanently. But, not the…

— Aiden James

“...and I was reminded....of the everday boredom of a life in espionage. One is always waiting for someone who does not show up,for something…

— Charles McCarry

“Special Circumstances had always been the Contact section’s moral espionage weapon, the very cutting edge of the Culture’s interfering diplomatic policy, the elite of…

— Iain M. Banks

“It was this that frightened me--the sense that behind the grande amoureuse lay concealed a little bourgeoise who wanted security in love.”

— Anaïs Nin

“It has ever been my lot, though formally myself a teacher, to be taught surely by none. There are times when I have thought…

— Loren Eiseley

“Curiously, the novels we escaped into led us finally to question and prod our own realities, about which we felt so helplessly speechless.”

— Azar Nafisi

“It makes it so much harder, living in this atmosphere of constant suspicion, knowing everyone is spying on me, and none of you believe…

— Eugene O'Neill

“In civilizations without ships, dreams dry up, espionage takes the place of adventure and the police take the place of corsairs.”

— Michel Foucault

“I press into the distance between us until it is gone, crushing the secrets we have kept and the suspicions we have harbored --…

— Veronica Roth

“The removal of all boundaries, all distractions, leaving us with nothing but each other - scary. What kind of people would we be without…

— Leah Raeder