I don't trust a man who uses the word evil eighteen times in ten minutes. If you're half evil, nothing soothes you more than to think the person you are opposed to is totally evil.

I don't want to retire. I'm not that good at crossword puzzles

People who are greedy have extraordinary capacities for waste-they must, they take in too much.

A nation fights well in proportion to the amount of men and materials it has. And the other equation is that the individual soldier in that army is a more effective soldier the poorer his standard of living has been in the past.

Chicago was a town where nobody could forget how the money was made. It was picked up from floors still slippery with blood.

The war between being and nothingness is the underlying illness of the twentieth century. Boredom slays more of existence than war.

We sail across dominions barely seen, washed by the swells of time. We plow through fields of magnetism. Past and future come together on thunderheads and our dead hearts live with lightning in the wounds of the Gods.