If you can change style, why stick to one style? Style is a vanity because it gives you product identification.

We love those who can lead us to a place we will never reach without them.

Culture is worth a little risk.

Great hope has no real footing unless one is willing to face into the doom that may also be on the way. p.207

Like all men who are Napoleonic in their ambitionshe has instincts about the nature of growth, a lover's sense of the momentof crisis, and he knewhow costly is defeat when it is not soothed by greater consciousness, and how wasteful is the profit of victory when there is not the courage to employ it.

Faction is that hybrid of documented fact and novelistic elaboration.

At bottom, I mean profoundly at bottom, the FBI has nothing to do with Communism, it has nothing to do with catching criminals, it has nothing to do with the Mafia, the syndicate, it has nothing to do with trust-busting, it has nothing to do with interstate commerce, it has nothing to do with anything but serving as a church for the mediocre. A high church for the true mediocre.