“Camouflage doesn't help when the other guy is willing to defoliate the whole jungle.”

“When you hunt predators, the best camouflage is weakness.”

“A free press doesn't mean it's not a tame press.”

“In my world, people are always plotting. Youhave no idea of all the crimes people in business commit everyday. Like it was nothing. Or there’s a set of special rules for them.Remember when Bush made that whole speech about ‘corporateethics’ last year? What a fraud. You think stuff like Enron orWorldCom is an aberration? It’s only the tip. Business is a religion.Probably the only one practiced all over the world.”

“The worst place to be is in the middle. When elephants fight, the grass gets trampled.”

“Perfection cannot be achieved by men," he told me. "Our highest calling is the pursuit of perfection. My haiku will be finished when I die, but it will never be perfect.”

“He said when the Lord made people He made them all the same for starters. But life marks people. If you know the way, you can read them like maps.”