“We are men who find chess fascinating. Did you expect our lives to be secretly interesting?”

“Vail: "There are worse things than being shot at."Bannon: "Like...?"Vail: "Living a life where you're never shot at.”

“You are the best of us. We are the best of you. What becomes of us will, inevitably, become of you. That is why you should care. That is why I write.I end this chapter, then, with broken silence, broken vows, broken trust. Our secrets are yours now; I pray you use them well.”

“Men like to share outrageous stories with one another - embellishing the keenness of our instincts and exaggerating the metallic compounds that make up our genitalia, or "brass balls" as they say.”

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“The fears we cannot climb become our walls.”

“Have you ever seen a demonstrable example of equality in your entire life? Can it be glimpsed in any dog show or classroom? In any ping pong game or chess match? Of course not. It is a philosophical abstraction, something nowhere to be found in nature.”