“....there are as many nuts on the left as there are on the right, and in the long run, the lefties are probably more dangerous.”

“Tension, in the long run, is a more dangerous force than any feud known to man.”

“They won'y hurt me, right?""Right," he said."You're probably then times more dangerous than fireflies are"Dangerous. The word made his heart spike.Something told him that was what this girl was---a danger to his fucking sanity.”

“The man who satisfies a ceaseless intellectual curiousity probably squeezes more out of life in the long run than anyone else.”

“they dam up the future. As long as you stay between these walls, whatever happens must happen to the right or the left of the stove...Thus these objects serve at least to fix the limits of probability.”

“An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run.”