The Seventh Floor Quotes

“Only the worst mental cases—the sociopaths and megalomaniacs—didn’t sweat the treason.”
― David McCloskey, The Seventh Floor

“The success of Russian culture and civilization depends on American weakness and division. And the Americans are destroying themselves, are they not? American politics are dysfunctional and polarized. Their economic life is fundamentally twisted and unjust. The culture is sick. There is no unity, no shared sense of purpose. Americans are increasingly soulless and decadent and self-referential. This rot is happening both bottom-up and top-down. And it’s happening independent of us, but we can help speed things along, can’t we? Hasten the decline.”
― David McCloskey, The Seventh Floor

“And it turned out the grocer’s daughter from Grafton could not write so good.”
― David McCloskey, The Seventh Floor

“I need to eat something so I can take my back pills.”
― David McCloskey, The Seventh Floor

“Irene took a shower, packed up, and checked out. She walked two blocks to McDonald’s. She ordered the Mir Aimal Kansi. The precarious nature of her situation hit home about halfway through the Big Mac.”
― David McCloskey, The Seventh Floor