He was a graduate of West Point, which is military academy that turns young men into homicidal maniacs for use in war.

There were lots of things to stop and see-and then it was time to go, always time to go.

I love you, Eliza,” I said. She thought about it. “No,” she said at last, “I don’t like it.” “Why not?” I said. “It’s as though you were pointing a gun at my head,” she said. “It’s just a way of getting somebody to say something they probably don’t mean. What else can I say, or anybody say, but, ‘I love you, too’?

Man is vile, and man makes nothing worth making, knows nothing worth knowing.

When I worked with General Electric, again this was soon after the Second World War, you know, I was keeping up with new developments and they showed me a milling machine and this thing worked by punch cards - that's where computers were at that time, and everybody was sort of sheepish about how well this thing worked because in those days machinists were treated as though they were great musicians because they were virtuosos on these machines.

Before you kill somebody, make absolutely sure he isn't well connected. So it goes.

Call me Jonah. My parents did, or nearly did. They called me John.