“Credo quia absurdum – I believe because it is absurd.”

“If I haven't done badly, it's because I've become indispensable to too many like David Abbott. I have in my head a thousand facts they couldn't possibly recall. It's simply easier for them to place me where the questions are, where problems need solutions. (Alfred Gillette)”

“I see things and I hear things I do not understand. I'm a skilled, resourceful... vegetable!”

“You're on tenth base, I can't find you.”

“I mean, we're all trying to find out who the hell we are, aren't we?”

“I loathe him. He stands for everything I hate in Washington. The right schools, houses in Georgetown, farms in Virginia, quiet meetings at their clubs. They've got their tight little world and you don't break in--they run it all. The bastards. The superior, self-inflated gentry of Washington. They use other men's intellects, other men's work, wrapping it all into decisions bearing their imprimaturs. And if you're on the outside, you become part of that amorphous entity, a 'damn fine staff.' (Alfred Gillette)”

“You're on your own now. You are not helpless. You will find your way.”