Keep everything in perspective if you wish to be happy. For example... Losing an arm is more an inconvenience than a catastrophe. Things could be a lot worse so why not be grateful they aren't and thereby happy rather than sad?

There are relatively few experiments in atomic physics these days that don't involve the use of a laser.

After a semester or so, my infatuation with computers burnt out as quickly as it had begun.

The 1970s, the decade of my teenage years, was a transitional period in American youth culture.

Keep everything in perspective if you wish to be happy. For example... Losing an arm is more an inconvenience than a catastrophe. Things could be a lot worse so why not be grateful they aren't and thereby happy rather than sad?

Just before my final year of high school, my brother, sister and I moved with my mother to San Francisco.

As it was, I realized choosing the study of Chinese literature as my life's work was probably a mistake.