I had always dreamed of living in Chapel Hill. When I was a college student at Hollins University in Virginia, I came down to Chapel Hill for summer school and just loved it.

I just came from Aspen, Colorado and they had fifteen kids I played for and they all played horns.

I came to graduate school at Harvard University in 1954. My thesis supervisor, Julian Schwinger, had about a dozen doctoral students at a time. Getting his ear was as difficult as it was rewarding. I called my thesis 'The Vector Meson in Elementary Particle Decays', and it showed an early commitment to an electroweak synthesis.

I came to America from Canada because Canada is stultifyingly boring and incredibly hypocritical.

The town I came from really had one industry, and that was furniture.

When I came into politics I always thought there was a possibility I would be killed.