I consulted moralists to learn how to appear, philosophers to find out what to think and novelists to see what I could get away with and in the end it all came down to one principle: win or die.

Be extremly subtle, even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent's fate. ----Sun Tzu

"You do not wish to know anything, you wish only to speak. That which you know, you ignore, because it is inconvenient. That which you do not know, you invent."