All these years, I've been opening the window and making love to the world.

His response was to fight it with the only weapons at hand—passive resistance and open displays of contempt.

Well, there was stuff going on, heroic events. One was what used to be, and probably still is, the largest moving project in history. The headquarters of the Bell Telephone Company used to be brick. What they did was take the old brick building - with the operators in there saying, "Number please" and all that - and they put it through a quarter of a turn and moved it half a block!

Son,' my father said to me, 'someday this will all be yours.

Be patient. Your future will come to you and lie down at your feet like a dog who knows and loves you no matter what you are.

I don't reveal to her that I love her. I keep poker faced. She might as well be looking at a cantaloupe, there is so little information in my face, but my heart is beating.

My special situation was that I was the son and grandson of architects. And so I saw building. We were building the city, and that was exciting.