How could American Jews live under this strain? Why did they not break down? I suppose that most simply practiced “denial.” They tried hard not to think of it and went about their normal way of life as best they could. To a large extent, I did this too. One simply had to. (The Jews in Germany did the same thing till the storm broke.)

I knew I would succeed, but I could not possibly have predicted the precise manner in which success was to show itself.

Kasparov sees a chess game as a pattern but an essay as a mere collection of words. I see an essay as a pattern and a chess game as a mere collection of moves. So he can play chess and I can write essays and not vice versa.

took the train to Boston and walked into the office of Burnham S. Walker, head of the biochemistry department.

As my research continued to decline, my lectures continued to improve. By the time my active period at the medical school was drawing to its end, I was generally recognized as the best lecturer in the school. The account reached me, in fact, of two faculty members talking in one of the corridors. The distant sound of laughter and applause reached t

It is rather risky to be a one-magazine, one-editor writer.

I had to spend part of my time taking care of Stan,

He was the third man, after Campbell and Dawson, to help me in my career for no other reason, apparently, than out of goodness of heart.

got to work with lightning speed, and on May 29, 1949, Bradbury phoned to tell me that Doubleday would accept and publish the novel, which, later on, I called Pebble in the Sky.