John Le
John Le
spy literature population
A spy, like a writer, lives outside the mainstream population. He steals his experience through bribes and reconstructs it.
clever thinking tragedy
I used to think it was clever to confuse comedy with tragedy. Now I wish I could distinguish them.
dozen doing-nothing reason
If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing.
love dream rewards
The only reward for love is the experience of loving.
inspirational leadership reality
A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world.
country philosophy years
My definition of a decent society is one that first of all takes care of its losers, and protects its weak. What I see in my country, progressively over these years, is that the rich have got richer, the poor have got poorer. The rich have become indifferent through a philosophy of greed, and the poorer have become hopeless because they're not properly cared for. That's actually something that is happening in many Western societies. Your own, I am told, is not free from it.
intelligence since
I've had nothing to do with the intelligence world since I left it, in any shade or variety.