Tightrope Quotes - page 3
![Orson Welles is a poet
through his violence
and through his grace.
Never does he tumble
from the tightrope
on which he crosses cities
and their dramas.
[...]
His handshake is as firm as he is
and I think of it each time my work
obliges me to leap over an obstacle. (Orson Welles)](https://cdn.quotesdtb.com/img/quotes_images_webp/66/orson-welles-firm-grace-983266.webp)
[T]he North owes its security not to nuclear weapons, but to American fears that even a minor strike on the North would result in devastating retaliation against Seoul. Any consistent outward improvement of inter-Korean relations naturally casts doubt on the automaticity of such retaliation and therefore undermines the North's security. The consequence is that the Kim regime must walk a tightrope. On the one hand it must project reasonableness and an openness to negotiations, while on the other it has to project great volatility and excitability, a readiness to stop at nothing.
Brian Reynolds Myers
