I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me that they are wonderful things for other people to go on. – Jean Kerr, “Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall,” The Snake Has All the Lines, 1958
Tyranny destroys or strengthens the individual; freedom enervates him, until he becomes no more than a puppet. Man has more chances of saving himself by hell than by paradise. – E. M. Cioran