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.

I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center.

Is there nothing I have done which will outlive me, other than the opprobrium of my first wife and sons and grandchildren? Do I care? Doesn't everybody? Poor me. Poor practically everybody, with so little durable good to leave behind!

You know who was a hero? Franklin Roosevelt.

The smartest people in Indianapolis became teachers [during the Great Depression]. And, for once, there was something for women to do because teaching was regarded as a woman's profession, like nursing. So the smartest women in town - Jesus, my women teachers were so exciting.

Just because something feels better than anything else, that doesn't mean it's good for you.

Symbols can be so beautiful, sometimes.