Books are flesh-and-blood ideas and cry out, silently, when put to the torch.

I like to smell things and look at things, and sometimes stay up all night, walking, and watch the sun rise.

When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money.

Every day is Christmas Day to a dog.

Digression is the soul of wit. Take the philosophic asides away from Dante, Milton or Hamlet's father's ghost and what stays is dry bones.

The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible.

I'm seventeen and I'm crazy. My uncle says the two always go together. When people ask your age, he said, always say seventeen and insane.