They were an odd combination: the civilian who tried to talk like a soldier and the soldier who had been ordered by the joint chiefs to talk like a civilian; the frosty Brahmin and the earthy, ambitious man; the pseudomystagogue with the counter-puncher; the inhibitory with excitatory.

Raymond, why don't you pass the time by playing a little solitaire?

Although the Paranoics make the great leaders, it is the resenters who make their best instruments, because the resenters, those men with cancer of the psyche, make the great assassins.

There is so much fraud in this world and it needs to be turned away with fraud, the way steel is turned with steel and the way a soft answer does not turneth away wrath.

The smugness and complacency of this country will be dragged through the blood and the noise in the streets until it becomes a country purged and...