Often I look back and see that I had been many kinds of a fool-and that I had been happy in being this or that kind of fool.

There have been as many varieties of socialists as there are wild birds that fly in the woods and sometimes go up and on through the clouds.

I had been keeping an off eye on the advertising field, thinking I might become an idea man and a copywriter.

We had two grand antique professors who had been teaching at Lombard since before I was born.

Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.

I have become infected, now that I see how beautifully a book is coming out of all this.