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 Read Quote
I make a good living selling hardback books through paper publishers, and I have many friends in the industry who will suffer as it changes, so on a personal level, the transition to digital isn’t something I welcome wholeheartedly. Barry Eisler Read Quote
The National Surveillance State doesn’t want anyone to be able to communicate without the authorities being able to monitor that communication. Barry Eisler Read Quote
A heart beset by coronary disease will begin to recruit secondary arteries to carry oxygenated blood. Barry Eisler Read Quote
When I wrote my eighth thriller, ‘Inside Out,’ in 2009, the villains were a group of CIA and other government officials who colluded to destroy a series of tapes depicting Americans torturing war-on-terror prisoners. Barry Eisler Read Quote
The strangest thing about the low quality of Internet argument is that effective argument isn’t really so difficult. Sure, not everyone can be Clarence Darrow, but anyone who wants to be at least competent at argument can do it. Barry Eisler Read Quote
The most important guideline when it comes to argument is the golden rule. If someone were addressing your point, what tone, what overall approach would you find persuasive and want her to use? Whatever that is, do it yourself. Barry Eisler Read Quote
It would be awesome to be so impressive that we could sway people to our way of thinking just by declaiming our thoughts, but probably most of us lack such gravitas. Luckily, there’s something even better: evidence, logic, and argument. Barry Eisler Read Quote
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 Read Quote
