The very first experiments with building rockets and firing them off were carried out by students at Cal Tech in 1937, '38 and '39. And later these people put together these jet propulsion labs in Pasadena and wound up sending aircraft and spacecraft to the moon. So it all began very primitively with love.

Way out in the country tonight he could smell the pumpkins ripening toward the knife and the triangle eye and the singeing candle.

The first thing you learn in life is you're a fool. The last thing you learn in life is you're the same fool.

When the wind is right, a faint odor of kerosene is exhaled from Senator McCarthy.

What should I do?" "Throw up in your typewriter every morning." "Yeah." "Clean up every noon.

I like to watch people. Sometimes I ride the subway all day and look at them and listen to them. I just want to figure out who they are and what they want and where they're going.

The blizzard doesn't last forever; it just seems so.