...I believed passionately that Communists were a race of horned men who divided their time equally between the burning of Nancy D...rew books and the devising of a plan of nuclear attack that would land the largest and most lethal bomb squarely upon the third-grade class of Thomas Jefferson School in Morristown, New Jersey.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There are no accidents, only nature throwing her weight around. Even the bomb merely releases energy that nature has put there. Nu...clear war would be just a spark in the grandeur of space. Nor can radiation "alter" nature: she will absorb it all. After the bomb, nature will pick up the cards we have spilled, shuffle them, and begin her game again.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you ha...ve had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Colonel "Bat" Guano: Okay, I'm going to get your money for you. But if you don't get the President of the United States on that ph...one, you know what's going to happen to you? Group Captain Lionel Mandrake: What? Colonel "Bat" Guano: You're going to have to answer to the Coca-Cola company.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I'm not saying we wouldn't get our hair mussed, Mister President, but I do say not more than ten to twenty million dead depending ...on the breaks.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Busy people begrudge the days being short. I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrinatio...n, Communist subversion, and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am as sorry as you are, Dimitri. Don't say that you're more sorry than I am because I'm capable of being just as sorry as you ar...e, so we're both sorry, all right? All right.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
[The] elderly and timid single gentleman in Paris ... never drove down the Champs Elysees without expecting an accident, and commo...nly witnessing one; or found himself in the neighborhood of an official without calculating the chances of a bomb. So long as the rates of progress held good, these bombs would double in force and number every ten years.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The writer has a grudge against society, which he documents with accounts of unsatisfying sex, unrealized ambition, unmitigated lo...neliness, and a sense of local and global distress. The square, overpopulation, the bourgeois, the bomb and the cocktail party are variously identified as sources of the grudge. There follows a little obscenity here, a dash of philosophy there, considerable whining overall, and a modern satirical novel is born.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »