“Optimism is a perfectly legitimate response to failure.”

“They must accept responsibility, recognizing that responsibility is not the same as culpability.”

“Perfect paranoia is perfect awareness.”

“He understood well enough how a man with a choice between pride and responsibility will almost always choose pride--if responsibility robs him of his manhood.”

“The trap had a ghastly perfection”

“Mrs. Cole was a perfect democrat. She hated all kids equally.”

“All the logic in the world could not blunt the pain. Logic could not blunt her terrible sense of personal failure. Only time would do those things, and time would do an imperfect job.”