Quotes About Author

Friedman was (and is) the world's greatest cryptologist.

He served as a cryptanalyst with the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I, and returned to River-bank to write an 87-page tract that revolutionized cryptanalysis by introducing statistical methods for the first time.

The epistomology-soaked orgy ought to come to an end! --Einstein

The Germans certainly - the intelligence service believed that there were WMD. It turns out that we were all wrong, probably in my judgment, and that is most disturbing.

In Conservatory of Death we see modern culture tired and kicking at the end of a rope. It is perhaps the first "deathpunk" novel.

Food-- like sex, politics, and religion-- is an intensely personal, emotional, and complicated subject.

The fucking deer just took the fucking elevator.

Rumors began circulating that Magic cards were so valuable that drug dealers were using them to launder cash.

Richard Wright, a Mississippi-born negro, has written a blinding and corrosive study in hate. It is a novel entitled "Native Son".

Now, I take it for granted that the real relationship is not with the writer but with the writing, that it's on the page where we find the deepest sympathies

Are you insane?" "Probably, yes," she said. "Empathy deficit disorder. Excessive violence. Something along those lines.

if you operate in an unhealthy culture you risk becoming just as unhealthy yourself and – who knows – perhaps it is the will to please that leads people to crime just as often as evil or greed.

It looked both aggressive and religious at the same time, Ivan said." "Not a good combination.

Sabah, an Arabic market that sits on the corner of the busy marché d'Aligre (see Resources, this page).

Anyone in search of chocolate eventually makes the pilgrimage to Ladurée, the world-famous tea salon just off the place de la Madeleine.

kickplate" in French? An assiette à coup?

principe, or "in principle." The fromagerie or bank is open on Thursdays, en principe…

Not every madman is an agent of the divine, Not all who pass are allowed to come through.

New York City hotels have free condoms in the rooms. All these years I've been using the free shower cap.

We do some TV talk. He loves Seinfeld, thinks Friends is "a little gooey.

I imagine it is because you can lead him to a story for his newspaper, and if it is for his paper, it must be something to make Hamilton look poorly.

If a commission by an earthly king is considered an honor, how can a commission by a Heavenly King be considered a sacrifice?

He is one of those giant figures, of whom there are very few in history, who lose their nationality in death.

Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children. Life is the other way round.