But I decided I wanted more education and I had to make a choice between starting law school, which was interesting to me, and going for a graduate degree in engineering.

I did graduate with a bachelor's degree in civil engineering in 1948.

I might say that in retrospect, looking at where the community college system is today, I think we may have gone too far. The community college system is so big, so broad, so consuming of tax money.

I got called back into the Navy during the Korean War.

And then, when I went into the Navy, there was no choice. You took about half of the hours during your naval training as naval courses and the other half were engineering.

The only kind of movement you could make in the Navy was to be a platoon leader or one of those kinds of things as you got more senior in your Navy career.

I was always good at math and science and physics.

I stayed in the Navy until July of 1946.

When it came time to go to the University, it was during the war.

Maybe that was the answer to good parenting—pretending the first child was the second.

Don’t sanctuaries become prisons, and vice versa, foremost in the mind?

She resents the chipped paint of the table and the dingy closet they call a dressing room. (Dark City Lights)

In all the universe there is nothing more precious than mind.

I happen to be a proponent of a single-payer universal health care plan.

Bitterness is repaid more often than kindness.

human urine is both nutrient-rich and an effective tooth whitener

Love all creatures! Love everything that has life!

I gave her my deluxe I'll-Kill-You-Later stare.

The road to Hades is easy to travel.