This is a nation tragedy, of course - that we've changed from a society to an audience.

He had supposed for years that he had no secrets from himself. Here was proof that he had a great big secret somewhere inside, and he could not imagine what it was.

I can think of no more stirring symbol of man's humanity to man than a fire engine.

Laughing is good exercise. It's like jogging on the inside.

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

. . . hummings and clickings could be heard-the sounds attendant to the flow of electrons, now augmenting one maze of electromagnetic crises to a condition that was translatable from electrical qualities and quantities to a high grade of truth.

There's almost nothing like native Midwesterner anywhere else in the world, except in Asia. They're miracles all in themselves.