"But the letters...."
"Somebody sick in the head is writing them. You're in a nasty hassle right now. Admitted. But you're the villain who's making it worse. You're the one who's building it into a crisis."
"I can't help myself, Sam. You said it's nasty. And I'm scared."
"Like friend Fink said, it's smart to be scared. But don't turn Square. Squares think there are Good Guys and Bad Guys. But we know we're all Good Guys and Bad Guys inside ourselves. Half the time we build ourselves up, and the other half we're knocking ourselves down. When a Square knocks himself down he starts looking for a Bad Guy to blame. That's what you've been doing. You ought to be ashamed of yourself."
After a long pause, Lennox said: "You're right. You're always right, damn you. I'm a noodnick."
"Hear, hear!"
"But I'm going to reform."
"Don't start any reform routine. Every time you make up your mind to do something, we have to take to the hills. Just sit tight and behave."
"I can't sit tight, Sam. I've got problems to buck and I know how to do it. I'm going to do it."
"Oh God! Is there no mercy?"