In Mexico an air conditioner is called a politician because it makes a lot of noise but doesn't work very well.
“I was always the one left behind. Out in the streets, when they saw me they'd say, That's just one of the Bee Gees.”
“Traditional matter must be glorified, since it would be easier to listen to the re-creation of familiar stories than to quite new and unexpected things; the listeners, we must remember, needed poetry chiefly as the re-creation of tired hours.”