“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.”

“One thing I've learned in all these years is not to make love when you really don't feel it; there's probably nothing worse you can do to yourself than that.”

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

“You never do find out what makes you tick, and after a while it's unimportant.”

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

“...the Waldorf looked like one of the dead and empty spaces which collect about the exit of a man who has lost a million in an hour.”

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