“People like you dont go mad, Vi. Theyre quiet on the outside and loud on the inside and sane as the day is long”

“People like you don’t go mad, Vi. They’re quiet on the outside and loud on the inside and sane as the day is long”

“A successful song comes to sing itself inside the listener. It is cellular and seismic, a wave coalescing in the mind and in the flesh. There is a message outside and a message inside, and those me...”

“Bringing you 'raisins and almonds' and words (from a Yiddish lullaby”

“I heard raindrops in the nightPattering upon my eaves,Like a pleasing lullabyEasing me back to sleep,Which I thought was odd a bit,For I awoke because of it.”

“...the souls of none of them were dead, but only sleeping; now and then they would waken, and these were cruel times.”

“Sleep, where in the waste is the wisdom?”

“If you can't turn off your thoughts, who cares how soft your pillow is?"- David King”

“Wolves and women wed for life.”

“Of course, MIT was notable not just for its faculty but also for its students. And, facing such extremely bright kids as a rookie teacher was something like being thrown to the wolves.”