- Rich Hall: In a war with no casualties, how do you know when you're winning? Through cultural victories.
- Rich Hall: Contrary to what it wants the world to think, that America grew up consuming F. Scott Fitzgerald or Hemingway or Twain, the average American in the '40s possessed the literary capacity to absorb roughly one to three comic books a week.
- Rich Hall: Stalin didn't have the physicists to build a bomb because, unfortunately, he'd shot most of them.
- Rich Hall: [on the CIA's promotion of Pasternak's "Dr. Zhivago" to Soviet citizens] If you ask me, it was an attempt by the CIA to kill as many Russians as possible, through sheer soul-crushing boredom, because "Dr. Zhivago" is a rambling, incoherent word-glacier that no-one, absolutely no-one, has ever, ever finished.