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

“We sail across dominions barely seen, washed by the swells of time. We plow through fields of magnetism. Past and future come together on thunderheads and our dead hearts live with lightning in the wounds of the Gods.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.”