“Oh, I love London society! It is entirely composed now of beautiful idiots and brilliant lunatics. Just what society should be.” Is Your Hair naturally Red ? … No, I soak it every night in the blood of my enemies. “London always reminds me of a brain. It is similarly convoluted and circuitous. A lot of cities, especially American ones like New York and Chicago, are laid out in straight lines. Like the circuits on computer chips, there are a lot of right angles in cities like this. But London is a glorious mess.” “The best bribe which London offers to-day to the imagination, is, that, in such a vast variety of people and conditions, one can believe there is room for persons of romantic character to exist, and that the poet, the mystic, and the hero may hope to confront their counterparts.” “I long to go through the crowded streets of your mighty London, to be in the midst of the whirl and rush of humanity, to