"he stood, in his socks, five feet five inches tall. like all of his friends, he considered it a compliment when somebody called him a wiseass. he possessed an incorrect but fervent understanding of the workings of television, atom power, and antigravity, and harbored the ambition -- one of a thousand -- of ending his days on the warm sunny beaches of the Great Polar Ocean of Venus."

- the amazing adventures of kavalier & clay, pg. 4