See what war does to the lives of people. Hate begets hate, revenge begets revenge, and the cycle never ends. And it is always us the common folks, the people at the bottom, who suffer the most. Someone should have put a stop to this nonsense.

Maybe Zimbardo wasn’t wrong, after all, given the proper instructions or rules, we slipped into our own assigned roles in society without even questioning the morality of what we do.

If it has not been invented in Japan, then it has not been invented anywhere else.

There was nothing more dangerous than idea. And nothing more destructive than an idea falling into the wrong hands.

She was the soothing balm to my wounds, the effective painkiller to my aches, the potent drug to my paranoia.

We come from two very different worlds, his filled with real dangers, violence, and passion, whereas all the perils and action in my life, have been largely confined to the pages of the books I read and to the imagination that I hold inside my own head.

It was not so much a battle of wits as it was a battle of wills, with me losing sorely.

That day, my Master spoke about a concept associated with that iconic flower of Japan, "mono no aware", which meant the impermanence of things. That nothing in this life lasted, just like the short-lived bloom of the sakura. We would never pass the same moment again twice.

A stolen intel could result after a night of pleasure, just as easily as death from a slit across the throat in the dark.

There is nothing more dangerous than an idea. And nothing more destructive than an idea falling into the wrong hands.