This quote was on the same page as the Chabon essay I've blogged below:

“Give me an underground laboratory, half a dozen atom-smashers, and a girl in a diaphanous veil waiting to be turned into a chimpanzee, and I care not who writes the nation's laws.” S.J. Perelman

It seems lazy to take two things from one source but on this day of Tom DeLay's resignation, I couldn't resist.