“No man will ever bring out of that office the reputation which carries him into it. The honeymoon would be as short in that case as in any other, and its moments of ecstasy would be ransomed by years of torment and hatred.”

“Any man who has known a love bringing him such happiness--if even for a short time--that its loss steals his very will to live, is a man to be envied.Justin”

“Even years afterward I suffered from the tormenting fancy that the huge man, my father, the ultimate authority, would come almost for no reason at all and take me out of bed in the night and carry me out onto the pavlatche, and that consequently I meant absolutely nothing as far as he was concerned.”

“No man who ever held the office of president would congratulate a friend on obtaining it.”

“How could you communicate with the future? It was of its nature impossible. Either the future would resemble the present, in which case it would not listen to him; or it would be different from it, and his predicament would be meaningless.”

“We'll abduct Garian. Or Jason.""And—?""And dump them into the ocean. Nobody would ever pay a ransom for them.”