Funny shit Josh Hollinger said

"so, uh... when do I meet with this fabled Rasputin?" re: the Reverand Leonard.

Edvard Radzinsky on Rasputin:

"I had always been afraid to write about him. And not just because it is a subject that somehow smacks of pulp fiction - Rasputin, after all, is one of the most popular myths of twentieth-century mass culture. I had been afraid to write about him because I did not understand him. . . . At best, he remained a crude bearded peasant rushing about Petrograd like some Henry Miller character with his phallus steaming."