“...Summer nights held a special kind of loneliness that gave rise to strange imaginings. One walked the beach alone and thought too much.”

“Men and women walked casually about as they did on the main floor, every now and then stopping one another, exchanging pleasantries or scraps of relevantly irrelevant information. Gossip.”

“How gratifying to be there when arrogance collapses. How much more so to be the instrument. (Alfred Gillette)”

“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)”

“The easiest thing in the world is to convince yourself that you're right. As one grows old, it is easier still.”

“The silence lasted precisely five seconds, during which time eyes roamed other eyes, several throats were cleared, and no one moved in his chair. It was as if a decision were being reached without discussion: evasion was to be avoided. Congressman Efrem Walters, out of the hills of Tennessee by way of the Yale Law Review, was not to be dismissed with facile circumlocution that dealt with the esoterica of clandestine manipulations. Bullshit was out.”

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