Quotes About Wolff

Most music is metaphor, but Wolff is not. I am not metaphor either. Parable, maybe. Cage is sermon.

Himmler's personal chief of staff, Karl Wolff, arrived with an indignant message from Heydrich at the Hotel Vier Jahreszeiten: the local Gestapo HQ had just telephoned that Goebbels's district offices everywhere were whipping up anti-Jewish demonstrations and ordering the police not to intervene. Himmler turned to Hitler for guidance. Hitler replied that the Gestapo were to protect Jewish property and lives, and that SS units were not to be called in unless things got out of hand.

He told me that a German doctor named Wolff figured it out in the 1800s by studying X-rays of infants' hips as they transitioned from crawling to walking. "A whole new evolution of bone structure takes place to support the mechanical loads associated with walking," said Lang. "Wolff had the great insight that form follows function." Alas, Wolff did not have the great insight that cancer follows gratuitous X-raying with primitive nineteenth-century X-ray machines.

I love Chekhov. I could go on all day about him.

The most significant social pathology of my youth was the generation gap.

boiling Mr. Wolff alive was quite outside the realm of 'reasonable force' and the fact that the large pan of water would have taken at least six hours to reach boiling point strongly indicated premeditation.

To the celestial Rose, who drew me into her lovely orbit. With love and gratitude, Theo.

Ailes had a suggestion: "Speaker Boehner." (John Boehner had been the Speaker of the House until he was forced out in a Tea Party putsch in 2011.) "Who's that?" asked Trump.

Bannon was making his first official pubic appearance of the Trump presidency,

It's just a conspiracy theory." And, he added, the Trump team wasn't capable of conspiring about anything.

Murdoch is a brilliant and manipulative bastard; Evans is a brilliant and easily manipulated man of taste and honor.

But if Halberstam defined the presidential mien, Trump defied it—and defiled it.

If I told Trump that, he might have the job.

But most of the leaks, certainly the juiciest ones, were coming from the higher-ups—not to mention from the person occupying the topmost echelon.

Bannon's deconstruction of the administrative state meant to take with it media, academic, and not-for-profit institutions.

He had no interest in precision, or even any ability to be precise.

the political antichrist, a figure of dark but buffoonish scandal,

his view, that he should say nothing—it was not his fault or responsibility, and he certainly didn't want to give a speech that might imply it was;

Immigration was not just Trumpism's sine qua non, it was the fundamental intellectual pillar that any dope could understand.

that looseness with the truth, if not with reality itself, are an elemental thread of the book.

hurry. * * * Bannon had delved deeply into the nature

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Trump, a man whose many neuroses included a horror of forgetfulness or senility,

Trump, said Bannon, noting the obvious, was the least disciplined man in politics.