“People don't like to be kept away from what they want. Especially when it appears within their reach. It makes one doubly angry.”

“Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous.”

“I walk away from him. It's enormously pleasing to me, this walking away. It's like being able to make people appear and vanish, at will.”

“I enjoy getting people angry and getting underneath their skin, especially people who don't think.”

“Desire is both imitative (we like what others like) and competitive (we want to take away from others what they have). As children, we wanted to monopolize the attention of a parent, to draw it away from other siblings. This sense of rivalry... makes people compete for the attention.”

“One doesn't generally look into mirrors when one is especially angry; one has better things to do, like pace the floor or throw things.”