Americans have an abiding belief in their ability to control reality by purely material means... airline insurance replaces the fear of death with the comforting prospect of cash.

More varied than any landscape was the landscape in the sky, with islands of gold and silver, peninsulas of apricot and rose against a background of many shades of turquoise and azure.

On close inspection, this device turned out to be a funereal juke box - the result of mixing Lloyd's of London with the principle of the chewing gum dispenser.

Love is someone you can be silly with

All I want is the best of everything and there's very little of that left.

A technical failure that shows some attempt at aesthetic expression is of infinitely more value than uninspired success.

Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.