"If he's their white hope, I'd like to know what their despair would be like. I think if ever I wanted to knock anybody off, he'd be the one. Are all of you blind? He's clever and cultured, of course, and he can quote Herodotus in the original, and to those little businessmen who'll never get over their education tick, this has the ring of heavenly music. But Robert, I hope you'd never leave your daughter or son alone with Kretz for one instant. He's such a snob he's forgotten what sex he belongs to. They're playing going to hell in a hand bucket, Robert, but they're not playing it well. All you need is a little slow music and you'll have a third-class funeral..."
--Billiards at Half-Past Nine