“‘I wonder,’ she was fond of remarking, ‘what they’d say if they knew that we two old tramps were going to be the most marvellous novelist and the greatest actress in the world.’
“‘They’d probably be very much surprised.’
“‘I expect we shall look back on this time when we’re driving about in our Mercedes, and think: After all, it wasn’t such bad fun!'”

                     --Christopher Isherwood, Goodbye to Berlin, 1939

“THEY WALKED ACROSS THE BROOKLYN BRIDGE AT DAWN, STOPPING HALFWAY TO WATCH THE RISING SUN> PAINT THE MONOLITHIC OFFICE TOWERS OF LOWER MANHATTAN IN STREAKS OF FIRE. THEY’D STARTED THE DATE WITH DINNER AND A SHOW, THEN A PARTY IN BROOKLYN HEIGHTS. MOSTLY, THOUGH, THEY JUST WALKED AND TALKED–ABOUT THEMSELVES, THEIR LIVES, PEOPLE, THINGS. FINALLY, THEY FOUND THEMSELVES IN THE WEST VILLAGE, OUTSIDE CAROL DANVERS’ APARTMENT. IT HAD BEEN A NIGHT TO REMEMBER, AND NEITHER CAROL NOR SAM ADAMS WANTED IT TO END. ”

                     --Chris Claremont, MS. MARVEL, Vol. 2, No. 23, 
                              "The Woman Who Fell to Earth," 1979