“To be put down in this world, and given only eighty years to get to know it in, is like being let loose in the United States of America for the first time with a high-powered car and unlimited gasoline – but with a visa that is valid for only a week. It’s agonizing, that’s what it is.”

“To be put down in this world, and given only eighty years to get to know it in, is like being let loose in the United States of America for the first time with a high-powered car and unlimited gasoline – but with a visa that is valid for only a week. It’s agonizing, that’s what it is.”

— Jan Struther