“I'd say the depths of his stupidity have yet to be plumbed, and yours is comin' up fast on the inside turn.”

“Interesting office management skills, kind of a 'violence is not the answer so I'm going to beat the shit out of you philosophy.”

“Sex can be used either for self-affirmation or for self-transcendence either to intensify the ego and consolidate the social persona by some kind of conspicuous embarkation and heroic conquest, or...”

“He didn't know all that much about how the machinery worked anyway. Such knowledge was for specialists. In war, as in love, he was a fearless, happy-go-lucky adventurer.”

“If she did experience sex--or something close to it--in high school, I'm sure it would have been less out of sexual desire or love than literary curiosity.”