The greatest task of democracy, its ritual and feast - is choice.

Room to swing a cat, it seemed was absolutely essential. It was an infrequent but indispensable operation.

The cat, which is a solitary beast, is single minded and goes its way alone, but, the dog, like his master, is confused in his mind.

The brain upon which my experiences have been written is not a particularly good one. If their were brain-shows, as there are cat and dog shows, I doubt if it would get even a third class prize.

Losing your way on a journey is unfortunate. But, losing your reason for the journey is a fate more cruel.

As the journalists of the time phased it, this was the epoch of the Leap into the Air. The new atomic aeroplane became indeed a mania; everyone of means was frantic to possess a thing so controllable, so secure and so free from the dust and danger of the road, and in France in the year 1943 thirty thousand of these new aeroplanes were manufactured and licensed, and soared humming softly into the sky.

This has ever been the fate of energy in security; it takes to art and to eroticism, and then comes languor and decay.