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.

Historians in the future, in my opinion, will congratulate us on very little other than our clowning and our jazz.

Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I’ve said before, bugs in amber.

Shrapnel was invented by an Englishman of the same name. Don't you wish you could have something named after you?

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.

Has any psychological experiment yielded a more delightful suggestion than this one: that there is a part of the mind without ambition or information, which nonetheless is expert on what is beautiful?

I had made her so unhappy that she had developed a sense of humor. [-Rabo Karabekian]