Let the peace of this day be here tomorrow when I wake up.

If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.

They plot, they plot, sleeping or afoot they never let up.

The moment of assassination is the moment when power and the ignorance of power come together, with Death as validator.

The silences here are retreats of sound, like the retreat of the surf before a tidal wave: sound draining away, down slopes of acoustic passage, to gather, someplace else, to a great surge of noise.

In their brief time together Slothrop forms the impression that this octopus is not in good mental health, though where's his basis for comparing?

A screaming comes across the sky. It has happened before, but there is nothing to compare it to now.

Nothing is hurt unless you are negative thinker

Success-minded people know that nothing is without a reason.

Yet he could not enjoy the walk. In the morning especially a bougainvillaea looks handmade, lawns are always lawns, and it is true indeed that dogs smell fear. Cats don't say.

The sea is mother-death and she is a mighty female, the one who wins, the one who sucks us all up.

History tells us that the threat to prosperity is not debt but socialism.

[Good managers] know that people have 'good' sides and 'bad' sides and that the secret of good management is in magnifying the former and toning down the latter.

'Cyberwar' has nothing to do with the destruction brought about by bombs and grenades and so on.

The tongue of a fool is the key of his counsel, which, in a wise man, wisdom hath in keeping.

He who is false to the present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and you will see the effect when the weaving of a life-time is unraveled.