Je crois que l'automobile est aujourd'hui l'e¤  quivalent assez exact des grandes cathe¤  drales gothiques: je veux dire une grande cre¤  ation d'e¤  poque, con c° ue passionne¤  ment par des artistes inconnus, consomme¤  e dans son image, sinon dans son usage, par un peuple entier qui s'approprie en elle un objet parfaitement magique. Cars todayare almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals†the supreme creation of an era, conceived with passion by unknown artists, and consummated in image if not in usage bya whole populationwhich appropriates themas a purely magical object.

-Barthes, Roland
  Mythologies,'La nouvelle Citroe«  n'.

The armoured cars of dreams, contrived to let us do so many a dangerous thing.

-Bishop, Elizabeth
  'Sleeping Standing Up'.

My final word, before I'm done, Is 'Cancer can be rather fun'. Thanks to the nurses and Nye Bevan The NHS is quite like heaven Provided one confronts the tumour With a sufficient sense of humour. I know that cancer often kills, But so do cars and sleeping pills; And it can hurt one till one sweats, So can bad teeth and unpaid debts.

-Haldane,J(ohn) B(urdon) S(anderson)
  'Cancer's a Funny Thing'.

Long after the bomb falls and you and your good deeds are gone, cockroaches will still be here, prowling the streets like armoured cars.

-Janowitz,Tama
  Slaves of NewYork,'Modern Saint 271'.

Everywhere, giant finned cars nose forward like fish; a savage servility slides by on grease.

-Lowell, RobertTraill Spence,Jr
  'For the Union Dead'.

Take most people, they're crazy about cars† I'd rather have a goddam horse. A horse is at least human, for God's sake.

-Salinger,J(erome) D(avid)
The Catcher in the Rye, ch.17.