A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world.
Source: In Quotable Business, ed. Louis E. Boone, 1992.
-- John LeCarre, (Oct 19 1931-____), English novelist; He (aka David John Moore Cornwell) made George Smiley, antithesis of James Bond, famous in Call from the Dead, 1962; also wrote Little Drummer Girl, 1983 and Perfect Spy, 1986.