True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

Eat, drink, and be merry for tomorrow we die.

He wanted to talk to them, if he could, to discover whether they had truths about life which he had never heard before. Here is what he hoped new truths might do for him: enable him to laugh at his troubles, to go on living, and to keep out of the North Wing of the Midland County General Hospital, which was for lunatics.

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

It is a very mixed blessing to be brought back from the dead.

The most damning revelation you can make about yourself is that you do not know what is interesting and what is not.

On the day they dropped the bomb Frank had a tablespoon and a Mason jar. What he was doing was spooning different kinds of bugs into the jar and making them fight....I can remember other bug fights we staged later on...They won't fight unless you keep shaking the jar.