Michael Chabon

has a great quotation from S. J. Perelman on his website: "Give me an underground laboratory, half a dozen atom-smashers, and a girl in a diaphanous veil waiting to be turned into a chimpanzee, and I care not who writes the nation's laws." Now that's a novel I want to read... or perhaps it can be a scene in my sequel to Dynamite No. 1.