Scarecrow Returns

So energetic are these actions and so strangely do such powerful discharges behave that I have often experienced the fear that the atmosphere might be ignited. . . .

—NIKOLA TESLA, INVENTOR

MORE: What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil?

ROPER: I’d cut down every law in England to do that!

MORE: Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned round on you—where would you hide?

—ROBERT BOLT, A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS

History is moving pretty quickly these days and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.

—JAMES BOND IN CASINO ROYALE, WRITTEN BY

IAN FLEMING