All great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.

Everybody likes to see somebody else get caught for the vices practiced by themselves.

The ultimate cynicism is to suspend judgment so that you are not judged.

The real demon is success-the anxieties engendered by this quest are relentless, degrading, corroding. What is worse, there is no end to this escalation of desire.

You cannot throw words like heroism and sacrifice and nobility and honor away without abandoning the qualities they express.

The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control their emotions by the application of reason.

To lead means to direct and to exact, and no man dares do either - he might be unpopular. What authority we are given now is a trinity: the grin, the generality, and God (the Word).