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From the outside, the CIA seems pretty exotic, but from the inside, it's a big, bureaucratic place. Think 'post office with spies.' — Barry Eisler

The National Surveillance State doesn't want anyone to be able to communicate without the authorities being able to monitor that communication. — Barry Eisler

When I think of a story, somehow it just always seems to come out involving spooks and spies and government skullduggery. — Barry Eisler

I read pretty eclectically - fiction, non-fiction, and poetry - and I've been inspired and influenced by a number of writers. — Barry Eisler

...savoring the sense of loneliness and freedom that comes only from solitary sojourns in strange lands... — Barry Eisler

Anger, and the self-righteousness that is both the cause and consequence of anger, tends to be easier on the psyche than personal responsibility. — Barry Eisler

If the reader cares, I don't think it matters so much whether your hero is in fact an anti-hero. — Barry Eisler

Publishing for me is a business, not an ideology. — Barry Eisler

I thought of an old poker players' expression: If you look around the table and can't spot the sucker, the sucker is you. — Barry Eisler

Books are my art. The movie is someone else's art. But it's great marketing for books. — Barry Eisler

I love Jet Li, but he looks very Chinese, and his English is Chinese-accented. He wouldn't have been the right guy to play a Japanese-American. — Barry Eisler

The essence of samurai is not just service, but loyalty to his master, to a cause greater than himself. — Barry Eisler

What I was doing, I was sabotaging myself. Well, it was time I stopped. — Barry Eisler

no matter the pain or shock or confusion, never stop moving. Never give them a stationary target. — Barry Eisler

If you live only for yourself, dying is an especially scary proposition. — Barry Eisler

Stephen King has inspired me with his humor and honesty, and his admonition that the author's job is to tell the truth. — Barry Eisler

Foreigners who think of Japan as a polite society have never ridden the Yamanote at rush hour. The — Barry Eisler

The hawk with talent hides its talons. — Barry Eisler

I've loved thrillers and spy stories since I was a kid. It's probably not a bad rule of thumb to write the kinds of stories you love to read. — Barry Eisler

At the national level, I don't know how to describe a threat to destroy Country A in order to punish Country B other than to call it state terrorism. — Barry Eisler

Good argument is intended to persuade another. — Barry Eisler

I love Japan, and Tokyo is my favorite city. — Barry Eisler

Shoganai," I said. Literally, There is no way of doing it. "Yes," he said, nodding. "Elsewhere they have Cest la vie, or That's life. — Barry Eisler

The City. Can't you hear it? People. Machines. Even thoughts so thick your bones feel it and your ear almost catches it. — Barry Eisler

There's an awful lot of corruption in Japanese business and politics, corruption of the sort that can make for great setting for a spy story. — Barry Eisler

A monk awoke from a dream that he was a butterfly, then wondered whether he was a butterfly dreaming he was a man. — Barry Eisler

If you want to create opportunities, you have to create movement. — Barry Eisler

A survivor reassesses odds continually and doesn't disrespect them. — Barry Eisler

The post office actually achieves its mission. I wish we could say the same of the CIA. — Barry Eisler

You see, cancer is simply nature's way of making you want to die.'

Tatsu. — Barry Eisler

A heart beset by coronary disease will begin to recruit secondary arteries to carry oxygenated blood. — Barry Eisler

After I sold my screenplay adaptation of 'Rain Fall' to Sony Pictures, I had no more creative involvement. — Barry Eisler

I've gotten used to hoping for so little that I seem to have lost any natural immunity to the emotion's infection. — Barry Eisler

I wandered the earth a mercenary, daring the gods to kill me but surviving because part of me was already dead. — Barry Eisler

Psychologically, it's always more pleasurable to blame others for our problems than it is to acknowledge our own responsibility. — Barry Eisler