One thing in the Middlewest: If you're in my business you're aware of the low opinion both coasts have of the midlands. And that is quite mistaken. New York would be a Kokomo if it weren't for Middlewesterners coming there.

His mother understood my illness immediately, that it was my world rather than myself that was diseased.

I wish you'd help me look into a more interesting problem - namely, my sanity.

I just don't think people get off on language anymore. Language used to be an elevated art. It used to be for people what music can be. But people don't learn to do that anymore, so eloquence is merely a matter of waste. Who needs a good vocabulary and proper English? Eloquence - it's dead and who needs it?

All was forgiven. All living things were brothers, and all dead things were even more so.

The people who taught really knew their stuff. My chemistry teacher, Frank Wade, was actually a chemist. I was so lucky in a number of ways.

I thought scientists were going to find out exactly how everything worked, and then make it work better.