(FORTUNE Magazine) – -- TIMOTHY LEARY, 70, once an advocate of tuning in, turning on, and dropping out, on his current trip: ''I am exploring for the first time in my life the amazing wonderland known as senility.''

-- NORMAN LAMONT, 48, Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer, on his similarities to Desert Orchid, a champion racehorse: ''We are both grays; vast sums of money are riding on our performance; the opposition hopes we will fall at the first fence; and we are both carrying too much weight.''

-- JAMES A. BAKER III, 60, U.S. Secretary of State, describing budget director Richard Darman, a political ally, at the annual Gridiron Club roast in Washington: ''The right wing of my party doesn't like Dick. But then, why should they be different from anybody else?''