Clandestinity Quotes

A spy, like a writer, lives outside the mainstream population. He steals his experience through bribes and reconstructs it.

Just because you don't announce your plan doesn't mean you don't have one.

It was extremely dangerous to be a black man in the KKK. If I'd been exposed, it could have all gone horribly wrong. The Klansmen were armed, and there was always a peril.

If I were Osama, and the United States government were actually looking for me, I'd be clean-shaven by now, crewcutted, wearing jeans and a ZZ Top T-shirt, and living in a nice little house in Lincoln, Nebraska.

A burning building doesnt help melt peoples hearts, but times change and tactics, Im sure, have to change with them. If you choose to carry out ALF-style actions, I ask you to please not say more than you need to, to think carefully who you trust, to learn all you can about how to behave if arrested, and so to try to live to fight another day.

The habits and language of clandestinity can intoxicate even its own practitioners.

If my friends don’t know what my plans are, then my enemies will not.

The greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.