If I could come out in this book and advocate complete revolution and the violent overthrow of the United States of America, without being thrown in … - William Powell

If people depend on the state to make laws, to prevent themselves from doing what they really want to do, then I say these people are nuts. I mean to say, if I really want to do something, I don't particularly care if it's legal, illegal, moral, immoral, or amoral. I want to do it, so I do it. The only laws a man can truly respect are the ones he makes for himself.

This is a brutal book – sensual, rude, coarse, and cruel. However, it is timely and well-written, even witty.

It seems acceptable today to scream for revolution, without any concept of what will follow it. This is just what the forces at large want, for who will follow a man who doesn't know where he's going?