"Take everything easy and quit dreaming and brooding and you will be well guarded from a thousand evils."

“In English, I'm a little bit limited. I speak English as a second language, and that's a little limitation that I have to work around and I have to use it to my favor. So, yes, that's why I end up wanting to do more things in Latin America.”

“Our limitation is God’s opportunity”

“I reject absolutely the idea that people should know their place, and know their class.”

“The post office actually achieves its mission. I wish we could say the same of the CIA.”

Source : "After the CIA, Barry Eisler writes thrillers". Interview with Carolyne Zinko, www.sfgate.com. July 25, 2010.

“(The mind's) dynamics transcend the time and space of brain physiology.”

“Une histoire d'amour dont les épisodes ont été mélangés par un fou”

“I only knew that there was a certain rightness in life--the feeling you got when you did something the way you knew you should.”

Source : Laurence Yep (2000). “Dragonwings: and related readings”

“Jokes often arise involuntarily, like dreams, and tend to be swiftly forgotten. From these similarities Freud inferred that jokes and dreams share a common origin in the unconscious. Both are essentially means of outwitting our inner 'censor.”

Source : Jim Holt (2008). “Stop Me If You've Heard This: A History and Philosophy of Jokes”, p.70, W. W. Norton & Company