“...beggars were permitted to enter great houses and solicit directly from the table, but now they are restricted to the doorstep. ”

“If a rhinoceros were to enter this restaurant now, there is no denying he would have great power here. But I should be the first to rise and assure him that he had no authority whatever.”

“Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates.”

“The communications apparatus at headquarters was remarkable...It was possible to communicate directly with all important theaters of the war...They could be directed from Hitler's table in the situation room. The more fearful the situation, the greater was the gulf modern technology created between reality and fantasies with which the man at this table operated.”

“Now beggars can be choosers with Cosmic Ordering.”

“From the pancake house I drive directly to the county morgue. The contrast is not especially striking.”