As I rebuild my life, I remind myself not to relive the past.

I have never thought of my life as being an enigma.

Living such an opaque life has forced me never to take transparency, openness, and honesty for granted.

For most of my life, I did deliberately lead a private life and inadvertently led a public life.

The past will always affect me, and I will keep that in mind while remembering that how it played out is only my starting point, not my final destination.

In my experience, working as an intelligence analyst with my own pool of sources numbering close to 100, by far the most effective forms of human intelligence collection are rapport-building and direct questioning.