People like that don't need a reason apart from "because I can". They have a nightmare and try to make it happen.

My agent pointed out one day that I had been quoted by a columnist in some American newspaper, and he noted with some glee that they simply identified me by name without reminding people who I was, apparently in the clear expectation that their readers would know who I am.

The pamphlet was very patriotic. That is, it talked about killing foreigners.

All the higher life forms scythed away, just like that. [ . . . ] Nothing but dust and fundamentalists.

He felt as if he had been shipwrecked on the Titanic, but in the nick of time had been rescued. By the Lusitania

Witches were a bit like cats. They didn’t much like one another’s company, but they did like to know where all the other witches were, just in case they needed them.

The IQ of a mob is the IQ of its dumbest member divided by the number of mobsters.