"All part of the newly secure environment as envisioned in the Homeland Security acts. That these people had chosen a Nazi title for their enterprise was presumably more a tribute to their ignorance and stupidity than to any evil intent. Nevertheless it was not reassuring."

"Every day people come to me because I've got some power, and I watch them debase themselves or go silly in some way. I see them go corrupt right before my eyes. It's depressing. It's like having the Midas touch in reverse, where everything you touch turns to shit."

"And yet why did things live? What got them through it really? What made them make all these efforts, when death lay in wait at the end for every one of them?"

"An excess of reason is itself a form of madness."

"But they are not taught to think! In fact they're taught not to think. And they are stupid to begin with."