All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.
Christopher MorleyPeople like to imagine that because all our mechanical equipment moves so much faster, that we are thinking faster, too.
Christopher MorleyPrinter's ink has been running a race against gunpowder these many, many years. Ink is handicapped, in a way, because you can blow up a man with gunpowder in half a second, while it may take twenty years to blow him up with a book. But the gunpowder destroys itself along with its victim, while a book can keep on exploding for centuries.
Christopher Morley