"My life is far too precious and my mission too important to allow either to be chaotically diluted by a lack of order."

"He is no longer with me—by my orders—but then that is merel the carrying-out of an order, after all a kind of negative being-with-me, as he would say. As for any independent life which Bashan might le…"

"The last half of the 20th century will seem like a wild party for rich kids, compared to what's coming now. The party's over, folks. . . is a given in wartime, along with massive campaigns of delibera…"

"Modern religious teachings have little or nothing to say about the place of prudence in life or in the hierarchy of virtues."

"I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain."