And even now she beats her head against the bars in the same old way and wonders if there is a bigger place the railroads run to from Chicago where maybe there is romance and big things and real dreams that never go smash.

Time is the coin of our live. We must take care how we spend it.

Poetry is a diary kept by a sea creature who lives on land and wishes he could fly.

I have often wondered what it is an old building can do to you when you happen to know a little about things that went on long ago in that building.

I have in later years taken to Euclid, Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, in an elemental way.

We had two grand antique professors who had been teaching at Lombard since before I was born.

Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.