Where there is chance of gain, there is also chance of loss. Whenever one courts great happiness, one also risks malaise.

Life is fits and starts, mostly fits.

You can get all A's and still flunk life.

This Midwestern sky is the nakedest loneliest sky in America. To escape it, people live inside and underground.

I couldn't stand it. I still can't stand it. I can't stand the way things are. I cannot tolerate this age.

But what physician has not had patients who don't make any sense at all? To tell the truth, they're our stock-in-trade. We talk and write about the ones we can make sense of.

It is not merely the truth of science that makes it beautiful, but its simplicity.