I roll out of my couch every morning with the more agreeable expectations.

The State doesn't just want you to obey, it wants to make you WANT to obey.

To sum up: 1. The cosmos is a gigantic fly-wheel making 10,000 revolutions a minute. 2. Man is a sick fly taking a dizzy ride on it. 3. Religion is the theory that the wheel was designed and set spinning to give him the ride.

Chopin--Two embalmers at work upon a minor poetthe scent of tuberosesAutumn rain.

For it is an absurdity to call a country civilized in which a decent and industrious man, laboriously mastering a trade which is valuble and necessary to the common weal, has no assurance that it will sustain him while he stands ready to practice it, or keep him out of the poorhouse when illness or age makes him idle.

Debussy--A pretty girl with one blue eye and one brown one.

What fetched me instantly (and thousands of other newcomers with me) was the subtle but unmistakable sense of escape from the United States.