“Can no one imagine an incompetent Legend?”

“If for every error and every act of incompetence one can substitute an act of treason, many points of fascinating interpretation are open to the paranoid imagination.”

“Any historian of warfare knows that it is in good part a comedy of errors and a museum of incompetence; but if for every error and every act of incompetence one can substitute an act of treason, we can see how many points of fascinating interpretation are open to the paranoid imagination: treason in high places can be found at almost every turning -- and in the end the real mystery, for one who reads the primary works of paranoid scholarship, is not how the United States has been brought to its present dangerous position, but how it has managed to survive at all.”

“The incompetent with nothing to do can still make a mess of it.”

“Kissing Mother Superior, incompetent, hairball, poppy seeds, on the can.”

“Just because something is told as a story and that story is part legend or myth, or feat of imagination, does not mean there is no truth in it.”