He ate a pear. It was a hard one. It fought back against his grinding teeth. It snapped in juicy protest.

To be is to do - Socrates To do is to be - Sartre Do Be Do Be Do - Sinatra

One of [ways being lucky] was to go to school during the Great Depression because teaching became a plum job.

What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.

Shortridge High School was an elitist high school. In a way it was a scandal because you could go there no matter where you lived, if you could get there. It was for over-achievers. It was for people who were going to college. So we were very special and we were hated for being ritzy.

I think that scientific persons of the future will scoff at scientific persons of the present. They will scoff because scientific persons of the present thought so many important things were superstitious.

I learned how to make jokes because I wanted to give people as much fun as they did, and I guess I did, too.