“So you come soon to power, but you have merely inherited the crisis and yours is the profit of cancer.”

“You can indulge your righteous rage but the things it comes out of are pretty cheap. The trick is to make yourself an instrument of your own policy. Whether you like it or not, that's the highest effectiveness man has achieved.”

“Yank! Yank! We you come to get Yank. We you come to get.”

“When the time comes, they won't ask what kind of a Jew you are.”

“... it all seems more reasonable and possible until you put it figuratively, until the metaphorical end, which is always the muzzle if you come down to it, blasts you in the face.”

“Goldstein, you'd be a pretty good boy if you wasn't so chicken.”

“Great sex is apocalyptic. There is no such thing as great sex unless you have an apocalyptic moment.”