People stopped calling themselves Freethinkers because it was so specifically German and anything German was terribly unpopular because of the two world wars. My family became Unitarians instead - it's the same sort of thing.

A committee of three can accomplish much if two don't show up.

What is my definition of jazz? "Safe sex of the highest order."

If I am going to spend eternity visiting this moment and that, I'm grateful that so many of those moments are nice.

I've written about Powers Hapgood. He was a Harvard graduate, son of a wealthy family who owned a cannery out there. After leaving Harvard, he went to work in coal mines and then was a CIO executive when I met him there, in Indianapolis.

Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia.

How complicated and unpredictable the machinery of life really is.